AQA English Language A-Level7702/1

Practice Paper 2

Time: 2 hours 30 minutes

Marks available: 100

Section A – Textual Variations and Representations

Section B – Children’s Language Development

30 minutes reading and planning

Question 1 – 30 mins

Question 2 – 30 mins

Question 3 – 20 mins

Question 4/5 – 40 mins

From The New York Times April 1912

Text A – This is the front page of an American newspaper the day after the Titanic sank in April 1912.

Text B – This is an article from the Guardian online about a ferry disaster in Indonesia.

Question 1 – Analyse how Text A uses language to create meanings and representations.

(25 marks)

Question 2 – Analyse how Text B uses language to create meanings and representations.

(25 marks)

Question 3 – Explore the similarities and differences in how Text A and Text B use language.

(20 marks)

SECTION B – Children’s Language Development

Either:

4. Role play and pretending is the most vital part of child language acquisition.

Referring to Data Set 1 in detail, and to relevant ideas from language study, evaluate this view of children’s language development.

Or

5. ‘Spelling is unimportant in the early stages of writing: what matters is content.’

Referring to Data Set 2 and Data Set 3 in detail, and to relevant ideas from language study, evaluate this view of children’s language development.

DATA SET 1

Data Sets 2 and 3

DATA SET 2

I AM going To Be SelPing BuTTYe anD I AM going To mery a prins

DATA SET 3

my fabit Book is do you want to be my FRIEND. the mas as the hos if you Will be my FRIEND the hos Said No. the mas Fids a FRIEND the mos as the luth mas if you will be my FRIEND the lath mas Said Yes they Dig a hol in the gan my fait is the hos