OCR A Level English Language Year 2 - CLA Booklet 2: Phonological Development

This resource is Number 2 in a series of course booklets for the Child Language Acquisition Unit (CLA) in OCR A Level English Language designed to be used by students in class. This is a unit normally covered in Year 2 of the A level. [Also available is a series of 15 booklets for Year 1 of the A level on which this work builds.]

This booklet focuses on how speech sounds are made in the mouth, revising and extending Year 1 phonology terminology and the IPA which is necessary for analysing transcripts of children’s language. It covers the stages of children’s phonological development and examines what phonological simplification techniques children use when they start to talk and why they use them.

The booklet contains both subject content and language examples for students to analyse. Exercises can be worked on by students individually or collaboratively and in class or at home. The booklet also contains a revision glossary which links to a set of Quizlet flashcards.

The resource also contains a photocopiable set of articulatory phonics cards for the consonants which can be used as a resource in class by students for the exercises in the booklet and for revision.

The booklet is also accompanied by a series of videos (not professionally made) that can be used by teachers new to teaching the specification to help them prepare for lessons in advance as they contain suggested solutions to exercises. The playlist of these videos is included in the resource bundle.

NB: Specifications do change from time to time so please ensure that specification information, detail and guidance is relevant at the time of teaching.