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CAIE A-Level English Language

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Flashcards for Cambridge International AS & A Level English Language (9093, for exams from 2027). AS Level covers text types, linguistic terms, audience and purpose, and writing technique. A Level is split into four topics: how English has changed, how children learn to speak, global varieties of English, and how language shapes identity, with the theorists for each.

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What is inside (49 subdecks)

  • A Level571 cards
    • 1. Language change159 cards
      • 1.1 Periods and key dates20 cards
      • 1.2 Old English and Middle English16 cards
      • 1.3 Early Modern English24 cards
      • 1.4 Late Modern and present-day English14 cards
      • 1.5 Processes of change in vocabulary50 cards
      • 1.6 Theories, models and attitudes19 cards
      • 1.7 Language data and corpora16 cards
    • 2. Child language acquisition160 cards
      • 2.1 Stages of early development27 cards
      • 2.2 Functions of children's language21 cards
      • 2.3 Phonological development19 cards
      • 2.4 Lexical and semantic development17 cards
      • 2.5 Grammatical development14 cards
      • 2.6 Pragmatics and child-directed speech17 cards
      • 2.7 Theories of acquisition45 cards
    • 3. English in the world109 cards
      • 3.1 The spread of English18 cards
      • 3.2 Models of world Englishes25 cards
      • 3.3 Varieties, pidgins and creoles40 cards
      • 3.4 Attitudes, policy and ethics26 cards
    • 4. Language and the self143 cards
      • 4.1 Innateness and learning16 cards
      • 4.2 Language and thought27 cards
      • 4.3 Language and social identity29 cards
      • 4.4 Research into accent, dialect and social groups24 cards
      • 4.5 Language and gender31 cards
      • 4.6 Ethnicity, age, occupation and power16 cards
  • AS Level781 cards
    • 1. Text types and their conventions126 cards
      • 1.1 Advertisements, brochures and leaflets28 cards
      • 1.2 News, editorials, articles and reviews39 cards
      • 1.3 Personal, spoken and life-writing forms36 cards
      • 1.4 Essays, speeches, narrative and descriptive writing23 cards
    • 2. Linguistic elements and literary features547 cards
      • 2.1 Word classes72 cards
      • 2.2 Verbs, tense, aspect, voice and modality54 cards
      • 2.3 Sentences, clauses and word order72 cards
      • 2.4 Lexis and semantics64 cards
      • 2.5 Figurative language and rhetorical devices81 cards
      • 2.6 Phonology and prosody65 cards
      • 2.7 Morphology22 cards
      • 2.8 Pragmatics50 cards
      • 2.9 Voice, perspective and narrative technique34 cards
      • 2.10 Structure and cohesion33 cards
    • 3. Audience, purpose, genre and context52 cards
    • 4. Writing and structuring texts35 cards
    • 5. Analysing and comparing texts21 cards

Some of its cards

  • Lexis
    The vocabulary of a language or of a text
  • Which linguist studied the pronunciation of /r/ in New York department stores in 1966?
    William Labov
  • An individual's personal way of using language
    Idiolect
  • The view that knowledge and abilities, including language, come from experience
    Empiricism
  • Pragmatics
    The study of how meaning depends on context and speaker intention
  • The people who read, hear or view a text
    Audience
  • A regularly updated online text, often personal and written in an informal voice
    Blog
  • A report of a recent event that gives the facts
    News story
  • The smallest unit of meaning in a language
    Morpheme
  • The way adults and older children adapt their speech when talking to young children
    Child-directed speech

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