English Language: AQA A Level revision notes

1 Language Levels
- 1.1 Assessment Objectives
  1.1.1 Assessment Objectives
- 1.2 Lexis
  1.2.1 Introduction
  1.2.2 Common, Proper, Abstract & Concrete Nouns
  1.2.3 Collective Nouns
  1.2.4 Adjectives
  1.2.5 Main, Auxiliary & Copular Verbs
  1.2.6 Dynamic & Stative Verbs
  1.2.7 Transitive, Intransitive, Active & Passive Verbs
  1.2.8 Mood of Verbs
  1.2.9 Adverbs
  1.2.10 Personal, Possessive & Reflexive Pronouns
  1.2.11 Relative & Demonstrative Pronouns
  1.2.12 Determiners
  1.2.13 Conjunctions
  1.2.14 Synonyms, Antonyms & Phonological Features
  1.2.15 End of Topic Test - Lexis
- 1.3 Grammar
  1.3.1 Morphology
  1.3.2 Clauses
  1.3.3 Phrases
  1.3.4 Present Tense
  1.3.5 Past Tense
  1.3.6 Future Tense
  1.3.7 End of Topic Test - Grammar
- 1.4 Semantics & Pragmatics
  1.4.1 Semantics
  1.4.2 Pragmatics
- 1.5 Discourse Structure, Graphology & Orthography
  1.5.1 Discourse Structure
  1.5.2 Graphology & Orthography
  1.5.3 End of Topic Test - Semantics, Graphology etc.
2 Language, The Individual & Society
- 2.1 Children’s Language Development
  2.1.1 The Exam
  2.1.2 Phonemes, Vocal Tract & Articulation
  2.1.3 Writing About Phonemes
  2.1.4 Phonological Simplification
  2.1.5 A Child's First Year & Consonant Acquisition
  2.1.6 Beginning Stages of Language
  2.1.7 Lexical Development
  2.1.8 Stages of Development
  2.1.9 End of Topic Test - Child Language Development
- 2.2 Children's Language Development - Theories
  2.2.1 Behaviourism
  2.2.2 Interactionism
  2.2.3 Challenging Interactionism
  2.2.4 Nativism
  2.2.5 Nativism - Exam Answer
  2.2.6 Cognitivism
  2.2.7 Social Constructionism
  2.2.8 Writing About Spoken Acquisition
  2.2.9 End of Topic Test - Development Theories
- 2.3 Literacy Development: Reading
  2.3.1 Introduction
  2.3.2 Phonics vs Whole Word
  2.3.3 Debates in Reading
  2.3.4 Modelling Reading Acquisition
  2.3.5 Other Reading Theories
  2.3.6 End of Topic Test - Reading
- 2.4 Literacy Development: Writing
  2.4.1 Orthography
  2.4.2 Kroll's Theory
  2.4.3 Barclay's Theory
  2.4.4 Creativity vs Accuracy
  2.4.5 Other Writing Theories
  2.4.6 The Exam
  2.4.7 End of Topic Test - Writing
3 Language Diversity & Change