
The Preconception Game(free)
Quite early in the Language and Literature course, teachers will want to get their students to do some self-reflection. Students, if they are going to recognize that meaning in texts is constructed, must understand the active role they play as readers or viewers. That is, students should come to appreciate their own enculturated ethnocentrism and...
Multivocality (free)
The Language and Literature course is all about texts and their meanings. A fundamental understanding – arguably the main understanding – of the course is that students come to appreciate that the meaning in any text is not given, but is constructed, or negotiated. Thus, texts don’t transmit meaning. Rather, in a more complex...
Multivocal
Multivocal literally means 'many-voiced'. The term can be usefully employed when discussing the nature of texts and their meanings. Multivocality suggests that meaning is not fixed 'in' a text in any kind of immutable, unified way. Instead, meaning is constructed by readers who occupy particular positions, who are informed ideologically,...
Language of war(free)
In our studies of language in a cultural context, we can explore the culture of war. Just as every industry has its jargon, every region has its accent and every social group has its slang, so too does war have its unique use of language. We are talking about the kind of language that is used to manipulate people and make them believe in a cause...
Topics(free)
The IB has stipulated several suggested topics for Part 1. You may want to cover a few of them in depth or more of them in passing. When studying a particular topic, it is important that we have many examples of language in use. In otherwords there should be a strong focus on primary sources. The lessons and activities in the following pages help...
EE - Studies in Language - Sample 1
For the first time, in 2013, students were able to submit a Group 1 Extended Essay (EE) in ‘Studies in Language’. The Group 1 essays, now, are sub-divided into 3 categories as follows: Category 1—Studies of a literary work(s) originally written in the language in which the essay is presented Category 2—Studies of a literary...
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Extended Essay in Studies in Language
Posted on 07 May 2013 by David McIntyre
Exams are over, at least for Language and Literature, if not for all subjects. It remains, however, a hectic time for students in my school. My grade 11s are beginning to think about Individual Oral Commentaries (IOCs), and are... more»
On Taking Exams
Posted on 26 April 2013 by David McIntyre
I have a young colleague. I value his insight. As people go, he's fairly phlegmatic. But not the other day. The other day he seemed unsettled by something. So, I 'enquired' about what it was that was bothering him. What... more»
What Makes Us Laugh?
Posted on 24 April 2013 by David McIntyre
I've been teaching for quite a long time. I've seen a few things. I don't, however, think that I have ever witnessed a student laugh whilst reading an exam paper during an exam in an exam hall. Perhaps it's unrealistic... more»
David Beckham is Posh
Posted on 18 April 2013 by David McIntyre
Following on from my recent post on codeswitching, you may be interested to watch the following short clip from the BBC programme Newsnight, and read the following report from the BBC website. David Beckham is becoming 'posher', and others... well,... more»
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