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Sunday, 24 January 2016

A2 work for Mon 25 and Tues 26

Splendids,

thanks for your updates, most of you! There are still some I am waiting on.

Remember, conclusions and evaluations are due Tues. Please help each other by giving feedback on the following:

  • the overview of what you saw in the data and tentative reasons why this might be the case in context
  • how the findings relate to the hypothesis/hypotheses (the degree to which they support and or contradict the hypotheses and relate this to the generalisability, comparability, reliability of the findings and even of the origninal research!)
  • the strengths and flaws in your approach (don't be too self-congratulatory or too self-deprecating - just be aware of what you can and can't tell from your data sample and why)
  • what you could do to improve the reliablility/generalisablity if you were to do it again or with more time/budget etc.
Please email me the conclusions/evaluations by the end of Tuesday.

I still haven't seen all the CLA research posted so that needs doing if you haven't.

I still haven't seen comments from everyone on the blog posts. You have had sufficient time to do this if you used the lesson time as I told you to do so there should be no excuses (or I should have heard from you).

If you are up-to-date, please start on Language Change by doing some research on the terminology for how and why language changes e.g. amelioration, pejoration, broadening, narrowing, back-formation etc. Also collect and share on your blog any articles you can find relating to how our language is changing at the moment (synchronically). I've posted some articles recently that will give you an idea of the kind of areas you could be looking at. Also look at emagazine and the Guardian language section for ideas. It could be diachronic language change or it could be descriptive and prescriptive attitudes as well - it doesn't have to be synchronic change.

When I do get back (hopefully Friday), we will do the feedback on the assessment and work on improving that essay, so if there's something you know you didn't know, make sure you find that out and keep revising CLA as we work on LC.

Reminder - I need the marked work you have in your folders, so please dig that out asap - we are expecting OFSTED.

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