Purpose and audience
What Purpose and audience means in English Language GCSE, as defined for Eduqas, Pearson Edexcel.
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Planning effectively for different purposes and audiences, adapting language, tone and structure to a named audience such as classmates, a headteacher or a community group.
Planning effectively for different purposes and audiences, shaping content, tone and structure to suit them.
Topics that use Purpose and audience
- Subject Content - Scope of Study (Eduqas GCSE)
- Spoken Language Endorsement - 3.1 Spoken language (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
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- Active listening
- Standard English
- Accurate use of linguistic and literary terminology
- Adapting register to audience and context
- Adapting to feedback
- Analysis of language, form and structure across texts
- Anecdote
- Audience and purpose
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