English Language A-Level
Student-selected analytical approach
What Student-selected analytical approach means in English Language A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Student-selected analytical approach
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Students choose their own approach for analysis, such as a framework suited to their data, and justify why it suits their data and question.
Topics that use Student-selected analytical approach
- Language investigation (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Independent data collection
- Research design and feasibility
- Teacher consultation and supervision
- Mixed text types
- Multimodal data
- Spoken data
- Written data
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