English Language A-Level
Conventions and audience awareness
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Each genre has characteristic structural and linguistic features, such as narrative past tense and temporal connectives, or instructional imperatives and sequenced steps, and children move from approximating a genre to controlling its conventions.
Topics that use Conventions and audience awareness
- Children’s language development (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Caregiver and peer interaction
- Development of communicative competence
- Functions and purposes of child language
- Genre as purpose-driven text type
- Mode
- Pragmatics and speech acts
- Research evidence and studies
- Speech and writing as different modes
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