Preparing for A2 Summer task (compulsory)

Studiousnesses,

over the summer, please complete the following two tasks:

• your own, personalised IPA sheets for use next year, ready in a new folder that has summary notes for the AS units (e.g. theories and key terms) and room for the A2 units of 'coursework', 'LC' and 'CLA'

• a reading log that shows you have read at least five sources on your coursework theory area and/or the A2 units. Include the Harvard referencing information and a very brief summary of key ideas in each source e.g.

Ross, A (2011) 'Technonanny - Language acquisition in older children', emagazine 54 online, accessed  23/06/15 Available from (with logon): https://www.englishandmedia.co.uk/e-magazine/articles/15360 (In this article, Ross in her role as Technonanny explores an 8-year-old's uses of the word "like", especially in its non-standard uses, e.g. as a filler, which she notes younger children don't use and which she has a dislike of. She explores the 8-year-old's sensitivity to her audience and her conversational strategies, explaining how she (Ross) has adjusted to the non-standard use of "like" after seeing how it is part of a sophisticated set of conversational skills.)


To summarise, please come back to the first lesson with your folder ready, the IPA sheet ready, and a reading log with at least five sources on it (hard copy if you have a new teacher or on your blog is fine if you are coming back to my class). The reading log should be fully Harvard referenced - there are sites to help you with this - and the notes/summary should show that you have learned something from the source. You could use some of my blog posts to help, emagazine (there's a login for you in the top box of our Moodle page, both AS or the A2 page you will be automatically enrolled on by the end of August), library, Google Scholar, Jstor or any other reputable sources. More than five would be good and it is vital you get ahead with both the content and the skills required to research effectively if you are going to do well at A2.

Email me if you want to start collecting data for your investigation - I am away 11-19th July but will be picking up my emails periodically outside those dates.