Morning everyone,
Welcome to our first computer room lesson. We will be in here every Wednesday completing work set on this blog and doing research when we start our sociolinguistic topics. Please complete all computer work on your blog, and ensure your blog is always up to date.
2 tasks to complete today. Firstly if you haven't emailed me the link to your blog please do this now as a matter of urgency. Send the email to cal@stbrn.ac.uk . Then:
1. Please ensure that your transition task is all completed, along with the challenge task of writing a PEE response to one of your articles. If you haven't done this, use today's lesson to complete it. If you already have completed this, revisit your PEE with the linguistic and analytical skills you have learned over the past 2 weeks - what improvements can you make to your writing on reflection? Add in some GRAMPS commentary, discussion of frameworks, ensure you are using the word classes and make sure your terminology is specific.
2. Next week we will be starting to think about the use of language in social groups, and tomorrow in class we will be watching a documentary on language & identity. With this in mind, I want you to think about how our language use contributes to the identities we construct for ourselves, and your 'linguistic fingerprint'. We will be beginning with some discussion about accents and dialects and the prejudices that come with this.
Write a PEE paragraph on each article below, discussing how the author presents ideas about attitudes to accents.
An article on 'accentism', with a focus on the Brummie accent
An article about trainee teachers being told to modify and change their accents
Any issues let me know!
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