A page of practice questions for AQA A Level English Language Paper 2 questions 1/2 and 4, ready for students to RAG and use for exam preparation.

An A Level English Language lesson (17 slides) on regional accents, ethnolects and multiethnolects - particularly MLE/MUBE - accent bias and linguistic profiling. Refers to Fishman and Garcia, Baugh, Rampton, Cheshire and other linguists and includes a possible practice AQA Paper 2 Q3.

This series of A Level lessons looks at aspects of ethnicity and language such as the following: social and linguistic hierarchies, linguistic racism, attitudes to variations and native speakerism. It covers the work and ideas from linguists such as Clark, McWhorter, Holliday, Baker-Bell, Fought, Ogbu and more. It considers questions such as ‘is native speakerism racist?’ , ‘how does ethnicity interplay with language use in the USA?’ and ‘are white people ethnic?’ and focuses especially on the example of AAVE/ Black Language / the ‘Ebonics’ controversy.

Series of A Level Language lessons (59 slides) on how age or generation can influence language use. Includes summaries of studies and linguistic views by Eckert, Drummond, Stenstrom, Tagliamonte, Cheshire, Labov and Trudgill as well as two transcripts, data examples and class activities.

An A Level lesson on William Labov’s Martha’s Vineyard study and results, and another on his New York study.

This is two practice questions for AQA’s A Level English Language Paper 2 Question 3: one on uptalk and one on accent bias. Includes all forus texts needed.

Exemplar answers for the AQA A Level English Language Paper 2 questions 3 and 4. Top band answers. The texts were focused on the topic of politically correct language.

The Language, Gender, and Sexuality Quiz includes the following five rounds: Who Said? Round Picture Round Definition Round Summarising Round Features Round It’s for A Level English Language students and is 45 slides long.

This 54 page guide includes names of linguists , summaries of their studies, lists which aspects of topics they link to, and has dual coding to aid memory. It could be used in chunks throughout the course and/or given as a revision guide before the final Paper 2 exam. Includes studies about variations: • Gender and sexuality • Power and occupation • Regional • Social: ethnicity, age, social class, education, interests, culture, ideologies And theories about Language Change: • History of English • Technology • Attitudes to Language Change • Types and process of change • World Englishes • Future of English This is a resource I wish I had had when I first started teaching A Level Language!