A preview of some of the AO2 Issues we'll be looking at in year 2: this article discusses ideas people have about Standard English and complaints that are made about people's language use in reference to it.
https://theconversation.com/five-things-people-get-wrong-about-standard-english-168969
Debra Myhill supports teachers in learning the grammar knowledge they’re now expected to teach to rather young children. As you know, it’s a challenge if you haven’t been taught it yourself!
A Level language students should be ready to take this little grammar test for teachers. Try it out; it’s the first .doc on this page: https://socialsciences.exeter.ac.uk/education/research/centres/writing/grammar-teacher-resources/grammaraschoice/grammarsubjectknowledge/
There are some *really* great materials on that page to help you polish your understanding of grammar.
It’s also interesting to look over all the other materials suggested for teachers to use:
We were discussing children’s language development in our revision session, and I said I’d look up the references for the case study of a hearing child brought up with deaf parents, expected to learn language through TV alone. The reference is Bard & Sachs, with several articles to look at: abstracts can be found here: https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED150868 and here: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/applied-psycholinguistics/article/language-learning-with-restricted-input-case-studies-of-two-hearing-children-of-deaf-parents/4F5BF799996DCD5977A94BC5F1233578.
A readable summary and discussion of this situation is available here: https://opencommons.uconn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1150&context=srhonors_theses — and it also makes a good model for the structure of a Language Investigation, which is our upcoming NEA in Year 2...