English Language A-Level
Genre as purpose-driven text type
What Genre as purpose-driven text type means in English Language A-Level, as defined for AQA.
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A recurring text type shaped by purpose, audience and context, such as narratives, instructions, arguments, jokes and classroom talk in speech, or stories, recounts, reports, letters, lists and persuasive texts in writing.
Topics that use Genre as purpose-driven text type
- Children’s language development (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Caregiver and peer interaction
- Conventions and audience awareness
- Development of communicative competence
- Functions and purposes of child language
- Mode
- Pragmatics and speech acts
- Research evidence and studies
- Speech and writing as different modes
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