Cambridge International AS and A Level English Language Coursebook 2nd Edition by Mike Gould, ISBN-13: 978-1108455824

Cambridge International AS and A Level English Language Coursebook 2nd Edition by Mike Gould, ISBN-13: 978-1108455824

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• Publisher: ‎ Cambridge University Press; 2nd edition (April 2, 2019)
• Language: ‎ English
• ‎460 pages
• ISBN-10: ‎ 1108455824
• ISBN-13: ‎ 978-1108455824

Updated and fully aligned with the Cambridge International AS & A Level English Language 9093 syllabus for examination 2021. This coursebook helps students take an active approach to developing and applying the key reading and writing skills they need to succeed in their AS & A Level English Language course. In the first part of the book, for AS Level, students will learn to analyse and write different text types, from diaries and blogs to reviews, speeches and narratives. The second part supports A Level study, building on the skills students have learnt at AS level and applying them to four specialist areas of English: Language Change, Child Language Acquisition, English and the World, and Language and the Self.

Table of Contents:

Introduction
Assessment overview
How to use this book
Part 1 AS Level
Section 1 Introduction to AS Level English Language
Understanding context, audience and purpose
Understanding form and structure
Exploring language and style
Voice and narrative point of view
Analysing texts
Key writing skills
Section 2 Exploring text types
Personal writing
Writing to review and comment
Writing to persuade and advise
Writing to argue and discuss
Writing to narrate and describe
Section 3 Reading skills – directed response
What is directed response?
Planning your directed response
Matching tone to purpose and audience
Comparing form, structure and language
Practice and self-assessment
Section 4 Reading skills – text analysis
What is text analysis?
Understanding and analysing the text
Planning your response
Practice and self-assessment
Section 5 Writing skills – shorter writing and reflective commentary
What is shorter writing and reflective commentary?
Developing a shorter written response
Writing a reflective commentary
Practice and self-assessment
Section 6 Writing skills – extended writing
What is extended writing?
Developing an imaginative or descriptive response
Developing a discursive response
Developing a critical response or review
Practice and self-assessment
Part 2 A Level
Section 7 Language change
How has English changed?
How language changes
Language change in the digital world
Theories of language change
Collecting and analysing data
Measuring language change
Practice and self-assessment
Section 8 Child language acquisition
Features of spoken language
Conversational interaction
Transcribing speech
The main stages of early language development
Language development from five to eight years
The functions of children’s language
Theories of language acquisition
Practice and self-assessment
Section 9 English in the world
The status of English
Whose English is it anyway?
Varieties of English
British and American English
Language dominance and language death
Practice and self-assessment
Section 10 Language and the self
Language and self-identity
Theories of language and self–identity
Language and thought
Language and social identity
Teenage and gender group identity
The language of inclusion and exclusion
Speech sounds and accents
Practice and self-assessment
Reference table of International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) phonemic symbols (Received Pronunciation) and transcription key
Acknowledgements

Mike Gould was born in London and after a career as a Head of English and a drama teacher, became an educational publisher and writer. Now author of over 150 books for children and adults, he also runs his own educational and publishing consultancy, Gould Publishing Ltd. He has written best-selling textbooks for schools in the UK and around the world and is also author of many short plays, short fiction and non-fiction, some of which have been published in partnership with the Imperial War Museum, Natural History Museum etc. He lives in East Sussex and is married to Jane, expert EFL author and IELTS examiner, and has three (grown up) children and a mad dog.

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