Research approach

Worked examples (6)

• 1What origins/development means: the diachronic view
• 2The same skill across the four topic areas
• 3Building a sourced timeline
• 4Causes vs mechanisms of change
• 5Contextualising unseen data (Section A)
• 6An evaluative argument about causes (Section B)

Model answers (6)

• ✓Model answer — WEN04 Section A · skill drill
• ✓Model answer — WEN04 Section B · skill drill
• ✓Model answer — WEN04 Section A, unseen data analysis (AO1–AO3)
• ✓Model answer — WEN04 Section B, extended response (AO1–AO4)
• ✓Model answer — WEN04 Section A, unseen data analysis (AO1–AO3)
• ✓Model answer — WEN04 Section B, extended response (AO1–AO4)

Worked examples (6)

• 1The language levels: your analytical checklist
• 2Precise terminology: the heart of AO1
• 3Same method, different inventory: the four areas
• 4Selecting the most salient features
• 5Feature to function to effect
• 6The data-analysis method (Section A)

Model answers (6)

• ✓Model answer — WEN04 Section A · skill drill
• ✓Model answer — WEN04 Section B · skill drill
• ✓Model answer — WEN04 Section A, unseen data analysis (AO1–AO3)
• ✓Model answer — WEN04 Section B, extended response (AO1–AO4)
• ✓Model answer — WEN04 Section A, unseen data analysis (AO1–AO3)
• ✓Model answer — WEN04 Section B, extended response (AO1–AO4)

Worked examples (6)

• 1The key idea: no topic area is monolithic
• 2The conceptual toolkit
• 3The continuum, style-shifting and code-switching
• 4Internal variation across the four topic areas
• 5The compare-don't-generalise method
• 6Analysing variation in unseen data (Section A)

Model answers (6)

• ✓Model answer — WEN04 Section A · skill drill
• ✓Model answer — WEN04 Section B · skill drill
• ✓Model answer — WEN04 Section A, unseen data analysis (AO1–AO3)
• ✓Model answer — WEN04 Section B, extended response (AO1–AO4)
• ✓Model answer — WEN04 Section A, unseen data analysis (AO1–AO3)
• ✓Model answer — WEN04 Section B, extended response (AO1–AO4)

Worked examples (6)

• 1Prescriptivism vs descriptivism
• 2Prestige, stigma and the standard
• 3Attitudes to language are attitudes to speakers
• 4Attitudes across the four topic areas
• 5Evaluating rather than reporting attitudes
• 6Researching changing attitudes

Model answers (6)

• ✓Model answer — WEN04 Section A · skill drill
• ✓Model answer — WEN04 Section B · skill drill
• ✓Model answer — WEN04 Section A, unseen data analysis (AO1–AO3)
• ✓Model answer — WEN04 Section B, extended response (AO1–AO4)
• ✓Model answer — WEN04 Section A, unseen data analysis (AO1–AO3)
• ✓Model answer — WEN04 Section B, extended response (AO1–AO4)

Worked examples (6)

• 1What social, historical and cultural factors are
• 2The feature-to-context link
• 3Contextual factors across the four topic areas
• 4Identity and the construction of meaning
• 5Synthesising factors into an argument
• 6Researching contextual factors

Model answers (6)

• ✓Model answer — WEN04 Section A · skill drill
• ✓Model answer — WEN04 Section B · skill drill
• ✓Model answer — WEN04 Section A, unseen data analysis (AO1–AO3)
• ✓Model answer — WEN04 Section B, extended response (AO1–AO4)
• ✓Model answer — WEN04 Section A, unseen data analysis (AO1–AO3)
• ✓Model answer — WEN04 Section B, extended response (AO1–AO4)