The Intricacies of the English Language

[kingmar]

Hey, beats me, I just wanted to be the first to start a thread here.

But I'd recommend people do the subject. We weren't offered it at my school and quite a few of my year 12 peers thought that it suited mathsy-kind of students more.

[cara.mel]

Thank you for starting a thread so I can see my shiny mod powers And also a 'report to moderator' button o_O

I'm going to write something very soon about what you actually do in this subject, and about it vs english in terms of choosing one

[kingmar]

Delete this if I'm wrong, but the difference between the Englishes are:

Lit: Massive text response.
Eng Lang: Massive text analysis.
English: Straddles the gulf between the two. Poorly. Very poorly.

I preferred the text analysis part, and so I wished I could have done EL. Stupid school. Plus, it's scaled up, and that's a nice little bonus.

btw, everyone gets the 'report to moderator' button. There's just not much use in reporting your own posts to yourself, in your case.

[cara.mel]

Yeah I know, I just thought it was silly because of that. Probably because I can only mod this one board and there's higher people

English language analysis is very different to English analysis. Given the last time I did English was year 10, I don't know too much about it except for reading people's practises on FSN. Having a lot at it, EL kids are disadvantaged for the gat xD. It's all short answer in ours, 'identify an example of this, what effect does that have on the text'. We also have an essay which are hard to predict (even 'it was done last year, therefore won't be in it' doesn't work)

[Mao]

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please run past me what is discourse analysis again? it's like analysing dialogue/speech/text? what u gotta write in it? damn language hw...!

[/0]

Yeah I know, I just thought it was silly because of that. Probably because I can only mod this one board and there's higher people

English language analysis is very different to English analysis. Given the last time I did English was year 10, I don't know too much about it except for reading people's practises on FSN. Having a lot at it, EL kids are disadvantaged for the gat xD. It's all short answer in ours, 'identify an example of this, what effect does that have on the text'. We also have an essay which are hard to predict (even 'it was done last year, therefore won't be in it' doesn't work)

You're making me scared man...!

[cara.mel]

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please run past me what is discourse analysis again? it's like analysing dialogue/speech/text? what u gotta write in it? damn language hw...!

Discourse is the actual text itself. You shouldn't have a question which tells you to simply discuss it, needs to be more specifc
(they can be vague for pretty much any other subsystem)

Actually thinking about it, you could be rattling on about function mode audience context there etc

And sorry, I accidently edited your post instead of replying to it, I'm an idiot XD

[/0]

Yeah I know, I just thought it was silly because of that. Probably because I can only mod this one board and there's higher people

English language analysis is very different to English analysis. Given the last time I did English was year 10, I don't know too much about it except for reading people's practises on FSN. Having a lot at it, EL kids are disadvantaged for the gat xD. It's all short answer in ours, 'identify an example of this, what effect does that have on the text'. We also have an essay which are hard to predict (even 'it was done last year, therefore won't be in it' doesn't work)

You're making me scared man...!

Woops sorry caramel I didn't see you were female *awkward*

[Daniel15]

I wish I did English Language, I think it would have suited me better... But when I applied to do it, the class was already full (my school only had a single English Language class, compared to 5 or 6 English classes).

[JL_91]

i looooove this subject so much! it's not that hard to study for it in a sense, coz you can observe things around you and analyse them everyday lol. however, the overwhelming majority of eng lang teachers are bad, or so i've heard. i can say that ALL of those at my school (also mel's school incidentally) are seriously bad! that kinda ruins the fun a bit, but otherwise..  

[cara.mel]

i looooove this subject so much! it's not that hard to study for it in a sense, coz you can observe things around you and analyse them everyday lol. however, the overwhelming majority of eng lang teachers are bad, or so i've heard. i can say that ALL of those at my school (also mel's school incidentally) are seriously bad! that kinda ruins the fun a bit, but otherwise..  

The two that took 3/4 this year I thought were both good.