Monthly Archives: February 2012

Language Survey Kit

Posted on February 29, 2012 by Mr Heald

I’d forgotten about this until I was trawling through some old stuff today:http://www.open.edu/openlearn/body-mind/download-your-language-survey-kit Some of you you may be able to borrow or adopt some of the methods used here. Continue reading →

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Methodology for researching accents

Posted on February 28, 2012 by Mr Heald

I was just importing some posts from a previous blog when I came across this post that somebody might find useful. Continue reading →

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Examiners report.

Posted on February 25, 2012 by Mr Heald

I’m just testing whether I can post links to PDFs in my Dropbox account. Here’s a link to “AQA-ENGB4-WRE-Jun2011.pdf” in my Dropbox:http://db.tt/JbPPcaTn Sent from my iPhone Continue reading →

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Research tools & guidance

Posted on February 19, 2012 by Mr Heald

I’ve started a Scoop.it! topic to collate ideas and online tools that may be useful for language research. The resources so far are mainly concerned with corpus linguistics, but I intend to broaden the range as much as I can. If any of you have su… Continue reading →

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Don’t be coy about seeking help

Posted on February 18, 2012 by Ant Heald

A year 11 student writes (apropos  Marvell's 'To His Coy Mistress'): Hi sir,   I am stuck on two questions on the homework and was wondering if you could help me please.The questons are:1) Stanza One. Identify examples of hyperbole … Continue reading →

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Don’t be coy about seeking help

Posted on February 18, 2012 by Mr Heald

A year 11 student writes (apropos  Marvell's 'To His Coy Mistress'): Hi sir,   I am stuck on two questions on the homework and was wondering if you could help me please.The questons are:1) Stanza One. Identify examples of hyperbole … Continue reading →

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A Marvell-ous Poem

Posted on February 17, 2012 by Mr Heald

Before half-term my 11z/En4 GCSE English class were studying Andrew Marvell’s poem To His Coy Mistress. Before the class actually read the poem, though, we looked at some of the vocabulary that Marvell uses, and one of the tasks I gave … Continue reading →

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Framing your research question

Posted on February 17, 2012 by Mr Heald

Just in case (!) any of you have not read back through the contents of this blog from last year, you may care to look at this post on framing your research question.Many of you have a topic area, and ideas of data you want to collect, but not alwa… Continue reading →

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World Book Day & Night

Posted on February 10, 2012 by Mr Heald

World Book Day is coming up on March 1st, and there are lots of competitions and other ways of getting involved. See the website at http://www.worldbookday.com For older readers, World Book Night is on April 23rd. The deadline has passed … Continue reading →

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Phoenix from the flames

Posted on February 9, 2012 by Ant Heald

This used to be my (Mr Heald’s) A-level English blog. I’ve tidied it up a bit, cleared out some of the out of date links and resources, merged the posts from my old GCSE blog, and now it’s open for … Continue reading →

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