Audience awareness
What Audience awareness means in English Language GCSE, as defined for AQA, Pearson Edexcel.
Definitions of Audience awareness
Exam boards and our study guides word this term in slightly different ways. Learn the version your board uses.
Check what you remember
Read the wording for your board, then hide it and explain Audience awareness in your own words. Rough notes are fine. This is a self-check, with no mark or grade.
Reference: AQA
Adapting tone, vocabulary and level of formality to the listener and the situation, for example using polite disagreement with a teacher.
Adapting language and content to the audience and purpose, for example by explaining technical terms or using rhetorical questions.
Topics that use Audience awareness
- Spoken language (AQA GCSE)
- Assessment Objectives (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
Related terms
- Active listening
- Appropriate response
- Audience and purpose
- Audience and purpose in formal speech
- Comparative analysis
- Consistency of Standard English in live delivery
- Dialect
- Evidence selection
Using Audience awareness in the exam
Check the command word and mark scheme for your exact question. After comparing your explanation with the reference, use the term in an answer on the linked topic. This practice does not predict an exam mark.
Practise English Language questions
Create a free account to answer exam-style questions on this topic and get feedback on your answers.
A week of Premium from your first lesson · Then the free plan continues · No card, no charge