https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/lexrep What are the key positives and negatives? en-us 2022-05-15 19:00:34 UTC 2022-05-16 10:59:36 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/lexrep/wish/2185494317 Strongest question across the whole paper- students attained either a level 4/5 mark across both assessment objectives]]> 2022-05-16 10:51:01 UTC https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/lexrep/wish/2185494317 https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/lexrep/wish/2185494331 Chose theorists which would be the most relevant to the question and applied the theory to the relevant parts of the data]]> 2022-05-16 10:51:02 UTC https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/lexrep/wish/2185494331 https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/lexrep/wish/2185494342 Students were able to discuss with confidence the way in which the food trends were negatively presented. Many students also moved on to discuss how the audience was positioned to share the writer’s negative perspective. The most effective responses saw students considering the wider social contexts from which the text had emerged and evaluating the impact of these on the language used.]]> 2022-05-16 10:51:03 UTC https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/lexrep/wish/2185494342 https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/lexrep/wish/2185494836 Students were able to explore and evaluate the wider social context of the competitive nature of the food industry in the light of social media. Often this was developed further by exploring how London emulated America as part of a wider global trend ]]> 2022-05-16 10:51:36 UTC https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/lexrep/wish/2185494836 https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/lexrep/wish/2185495173 More successful students made connections between language use and this interactivity. Associated with this was a keen awareness from many students about how the graphology worked alongside text to create cohesion and reinforce meanings]]> 2022-05-16 10:51:59 UTC https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/lexrep/wish/2185495173 https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/lexrep/wish/2185495258 demonstrate a pragmatic awareness tied into how the audience was being positioned]]> 2022-05-16 10:52:05 UTC https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/lexrep/wish/2185495258 https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/lexrep/wish/2185495643 Discuss grammatical rules accurately (e.g. past tense formation, irregular verb patterns, use of inflections)]]> 2022-05-16 10:52:19 UTC https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/lexrep/wish/2185495643 https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/lexrep/wish/2185495834 2022-05-16 10:52:27 UTC https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/lexrep/wish/2185495834 https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/lexrep/wish/2185496122 mislabelling of more complicated grammatical structures often occurring at the detriment of the meaningful language comment which might have been made elsewhere.]]> 2022-05-16 10:52:44 UTC https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/lexrep/wish/2185496122 https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/lexrep/wish/2185496136 Traditionally this question seems to have proved particularly challenging to students, both in terms of time available for response and challenge of comparing two texts and synthesising comments about language, context and representations across the two texts. ]]> 2022-05-16 10:52:45 UTC https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/lexrep/wish/2185496136 https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/lexrep/wish/2185496190 Students were able to demonstrated a pragmatic awareness tied in to how the audience was being positioned. For example, some students identified the nuances of the question ‘Which food trends irk you?’ which presupposes reader agreement that food trends are in fact annoying. ]]> 2022-05-16 10:52:48 UTC https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/lexrep/wish/2185496190 https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/lexrep/wish/2185496537 needed to have considered the word in the context of the sentence. For example, the words 'irritating', operated as pre-modifying adjectives within the text but a fair number of students labelled them as verbs ]]> 2022-05-16 10:53:11 UTC https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/lexrep/wish/2185496537 https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/lexrep/wish/2185496681 Analysed patterns across the data (e.g. identifying language features that are present throughout the data)]]> 2022-05-16 10:53:20 UTC https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/lexrep/wish/2185496681 https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/lexrep/wish/2185496904 challenge in terms of time available]]> 2022-05-16 10:53:33 UTC https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/lexrep/wish/2185496904 https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/lexrep/wish/2185496951  It was more unusual to see students performing at level 5 for this question, since a more evaluative element was less evident. There were still a fair number of students who struggled to move beyond more literal comments about content, genre, purpose and audience. I]]> 2022-05-16 10:53:35 UTC https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/lexrep/wish/2185496951 https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/lexrep/wish/2185497879  Students often demonstrated the capacity to move from more literal connections to language comparison to then more synthesised comparison of language in the light of context and representation.]]> 2022-05-16 10:54:01 UTC https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/lexrep/wish/2185497879 https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/lexrep/wish/2185497939 Made reference to relevant case studies without undue focus and less relevant details]]> 2022-05-16 10:54:05 UTC https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/lexrep/wish/2185497939 https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/lexrep/wish/2185498211 More successful responses compared the two texts in terms of their age, genre, technological factors and social changes ]]> 2022-05-16 10:54:24 UTC https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/lexrep/wish/2185498211 https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/lexrep/wish/2185498383 students still occasionally repeated language comments from questions 1 and 2]]> 2022-05-16 10:54:36 UTC https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/lexrep/wish/2185498383 https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/lexrep/wish/2185498682 addressed differeing reprsentations in the 2 texts and used these as a spring board to discussing wider contextual differences. more successful answers compared the 2 texts in terms of their age, genre, technological factors and social changes in relation to the discourses about food]]> 2022-05-16 10:54:55 UTC https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/lexrep/wish/2185498682 https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/lexrep/wish/2185499012 One way forward is to try and include alternative viewpoints and not just use theorists that agree with the statement]]> 2022-05-16 10:55:15 UTC https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/lexrep/wish/2185499012 https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/lexrep/wish/2185499275 - Considered a range of representation 
- audience was positioned to share the writers negative perspective 
- considering wider social contexts and evaluate the impact of these on the language used 
- insightful points of the potential interactivity of the blog 
- text- image cohesion etc.
- good use of terminology throughout the essay 
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]]> 2022-05-16 10:55:33 UTC https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/lexrep/wish/2185499275 https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/lexrep/wish/2185499342 *students still occasionally repeated language comments from questions 1 and 2. The level of detail could be excessive, particularly given that there is no AO1 mark available for this question
*comments were occasionally still being made about each text in isolation, becoming distracted by the detail around a particular text and forgetting to then compare them
*those responses with no exemplification to support language comparisons remained somewhat unconvincing. More effective responses provided brief examples to support points made.]]> 2022-05-16 10:55:37 UTC https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/lexrep/wish/2185499342 https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/lexrep/wish/2185499925 need more comments about cohesive devices and textual struxture within the repsonses for q2 as opposed to q1]]> 2022-05-16 10:56:13 UTC https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/lexrep/wish/2185499925 https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/lexrep/wish/2185500262 Some students writing sort of scripted answers that have been pre planned and are not actually associated with the question]]> 2022-05-16 10:56:36 UTC https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/lexrep/wish/2185500262 https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/lexrep/wish/2185500959  some students used a number of theories to simply agree with the statement offered. It is important for students to also consider whether there are alternative viewpoints to incorporate into the response.]]> 2022-05-16 10:57:10 UTC https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/lexrep/wish/2185500959 https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/lexrep/wish/2185501875  some students did not engage with the data in the light of the question about grammar teaching and this was evidently a missed opportunity
some students still used exclusively spoken language theory when answering this question, without relating it specifically to literacy.]]> 2022-05-16 10:58:05 UTC https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/lexrep/wish/2185501875 https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/lexrep/wish/2185502115 use the transcript and relate it to the context of the question (60%)]]> 2022-05-16 10:58:19 UTC https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/lexrep/wish/2185502115 https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/lexrep/wish/2185503251 - theorists relevant to the content 
- clearly structured and concise
- analysed patterns across the data 
- relevant information provided ( too many people waffle) 
- lack of evaluation e.g Nature VS Nurture debate but don’t link back to the question ]]> 2022-05-16 10:59:36 UTC https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/lexrep/wish/2185503251