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VCE Stuff => VCE English Studies => VCE Subjects + Help => VCE English Language => Topic started by: strawberries on February 25, 2015, 08:15:09 pm
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Hi I was just wondering if anyone is/how many people are doing 3/4 englang this year?!?!
I know the year has just started, but where are you guys up to and when are your first SACS? :D
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Sup!
I picked up lang this year, and I am only just getting my head around all the metalanguage now. We are currently doing standard language, which I find immensely boring tbh. Our teacher literally emailed us an hour ago casually telling us to write an essay. I probably shouldn't be on this website instead of doing it ahah
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First SAC this friday on Informal Spoken texts! Attempting practice SACS right now haha :(
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so unfair we had our sac so early on informal language essay + SA. had it about a week and a half ago, and i havent even done 1/2.
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so unfair we had our sac so early on informal language essay + SA. had it about a week and a half ago, and i havent even done 1/2.
How are you going with picking it up? I think I've caught up to everyone else in the class, but I still have a mindset that everyone is better than me and that I'm always wrong
Oh and our formal language sac is on the last day of term, how delightful!
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so unfair we had our sac so early on informal language essay + SA. had it about a week and a half ago, and i havent even done 1/2.
wow you guys had to do an essay so early in the year? I don't think my school is even assessing in terms of essays until unit 4 LOL
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How are you going with picking it up? I think I've caught up to everyone else in the class, but I still have a mindset that everyone is better than me and that I'm always wrong
Oh and our formal language sac is on the last day of term, how delightful!
i think i know all the content but am in the exact situation with you. If someone says something in class i always assume its because they did 1/2 (if that makes sense?) - im not really confident with saying things in class cause i might have missed an aspect.
wow you guys had to do an essay so early in the year? I don't think my school is even assessing in terms of essays until unit 4 LOL
very annoying cause i know i effed it. My tutor also said out of all his students (20 or so he mentioned), that i was the first one too do a sac this early, with others doing it start of March atleast.
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i think i know all the content but am in the exact situation with you. If someone says something in class i always assume its because they did 1/2 (if that makes sense?) - im not really confident with saying things in class cause i might have missed an aspect.
very annoying cause i know i effed it. My tutor also said out of all his students (20 or so he mentioned), that i was the first one too do a sac this early, with others doing it start of March atleast.
So accurate, I never want to like challenge anyone even if I am almost certain I'm right. I'm sure that stigma will go away soon enough though
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Hi I was just wondering if anyone is/how many people are doing 3/4 englang this year?!?!
I know the year has just started, but where are you guys up to and when are your first SACS? :D
WOOO yeah eng lang hahaha, just did my first sac last friday. Kinda bombed it but i don't know exactly yet
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I am seriously so behind in everything right now. This informal language stuff confuses me and I'm STILL not even 100% familiar with my subsystems
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I am seriously so behind in everything right now. This informal language stuff confuses me and I'm STILL not even 100% familiar with my subsystems
Hopefully this helps you with informal language. Just keep staying positive, work hard and ask for help. :)
Features of Informal Language List!
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So accurate, I never want to like challenge anyone even if I am almost certain I'm right. I'm sure that stigma will go away soon enough though
lol so early! Is anyone else's first sac in term 2?? My teacher is doing is weirdly lol
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guys, how do we write an analytical commentary!?! my sacs in less than 2 weeks and my teacher expects us how to write one. i'm totally lost and i have no clue of what the purpose of writing an analytical commentary is? what's my goal in writing one , like what's an analytical commentary trying to achieve?
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My first English Language SAC will be next week!
We're writing an essay and my essay-writing skills suck :(
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My first English Language SAC will be next week!
We're writing an essay and my essay-writing skills suck :(
All term i have been kicking back knowing my sac is the last day of term
Today i realised that is next week
#panicmode
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got our second essay coming up this week. Essay down and then AC, which will be the two sacs for AOS1.
6 more to go after that
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Are euphemisms and politically correct language categorised as semantic or lexical choices?
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Are euphemisms and politically correct language categorised as semantic or lexical choices?
I think semantic (should be in the metalanguage list on the study design)
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Hey everyone :)
I was wondering if anyone could give me an example of front focus and end focus?
I'm struggling to get my head around it :-\
Thanks :)
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Hey! How's everyone going so far for aos2? :)
Anyone done a SAC yet for this unit?
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Hey! How's everyone going so far for aos2? :)
Anyone done a SAC yet for this unit?
Have done two SACs this year so far... 100% AND the other 80% (:()
I just have been slacking with lang recently, the content is getting soo dry -.-
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Hey! How's everyone going so far for aos2? :)
Anyone done a SAC yet for this unit?
We did aos2 first, I liked it so much more than aos 1 tbh. I reckon aos 2 is so much easier because it's just all formal, whereas in 1 it's partly informal and partly formal for most texts, so you can't talk as definitely about how language choice affects the overall register etc
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Have an english sac on thursday dealing with formal language, not sure how to prepare for it :(
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Have an english sac on thursday dealing with formal language, not sure how to prepare for it :(
Do you know what sort of SAC it will be?
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its an essay on a formal language topic
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Have an english sac on thursday dealing with formal language, not sure how to prepare for it :(
Do you have that Green Eng Lang book that has a whole bunch of essay prompts for different topics? Those are really great for essay preparation.
Alternatively you could break things down a little bit more by going over different features/variations of formal language (political correctness, euphemisms, weasel words etc), recalling what their function is in language, how they're used, what values it reflects from the speaker and good examples of each. Recent and interesting examples are a must for a good essay so searching around for these to keep up your sleeve would be a good start
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Do you have that Green Eng Lang book that has a whole bunch of essay prompts for different topics? Those are really great for essay preparation.
Alternatively you could break things down a little bit more by going over different features/variations of formal language (political correctness, euphemisms, weasel words etc), recalling what their function is in language, how they're used, what values it reflects from the speaker and good examples of each. Recent and interesting examples are a must for a good essay so searching around for these to keep up your sleeve would be a good start
Yeah that's what I'll most likely do, thanks heaps :)
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Has anyone started analytical commentaries yet? :)
Just wanting to ask where everyone is atm.
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Has anyone started analytical commentaries yet? :)
Just wanting to ask where everyone is atm.
So far weve done 4 sacs (2 for each aos)
Short answer questions on an informal text
Analytical commentary on an informal text
Essay on formal language
Analytical commentary on a formal text
so yeah, we've done quite a few analytical commentaries now
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So far weve done 4 sacs (2 for each aos)
Short answer questions on an informal text
Analytical commentary on an informal text
Essay on formal language
Analytical commentary on a formal text
so yeah, we've done quite a few analytical commentaries now
Omg that's so good! :)
We only do 1 SAC for each AoS and we don't even have an analytical commentary SAC :-\
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does anyone have any recent examples in the media of formal forms of exclusion or inclusion, in regards to slang, jargon, sexist or racist discourse
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does anyone have any recent examples in the media of formal forms of exclusion or inclusion, in regards to slang, jargon, sexist or racist discourse
These are just some off the top of my head, dunno how recent you want
INCLUSIVE SLANG
If you understand our lingo, you’re in
Tim Barlass
What does it mean to bandicoot? Would you be insulted to be called a bush foal? Or perhaps you know the meaning of a cock-eyed bob, a methodist gate or rat-and-fowl? Are there perhaps portholes in your coffin?
If you are struggling, it might be reasonable to think that our rich vocabulary, from a wide diversity of sources over more than two centuries, could be under threat.
Author Hugh Lunn, writing in Lost for Words in 2006, suggested the language was in its final death throes and beyond resuscitation.
But now it seems there is new hope. Our language is in a permanent state of transformation, with slang the fastest-changing element of all, he suggests. Aussie kids are displaying the same verbal inventiveness as their grandparents.
‘‘We may no longer be using cobber as part of our everyday speech, but we are constantly coining new and distinctively Australian expressions that display an unending verbal inventiveness,’’ he writes.
Journalist and Sydney radio presenter Kel Richards is on a quest to uncover Australia’s rich linguistic traditions. He believes that the majority of people simply don’t know the origins of most words.
‘‘Most of the language we use most of the time we don’t know where it comes from. We have absorbed (words and sayings) by a process of osmosis and we just use them.’’
Richards also rejects the idea that ‘‘our distinctive lingo is being drowned under a tsunami of Yankeespeak’’ – instead he says we pick and choose the Americanisms we want and reject others. Americans say drug stores. We say chemists. We fill up with petrol while Americans say gas.
That selectivity is an argument for the resilience of Aussie English, according to his book The Story of Australian English, to be published next week.
Also flowing quietly beneath the surface of even the most urban and streetwise Aussies is a deep reservoir of what he calls OBV – old bush vernacular.
‘‘Few Aussies speak OBV all the time. Those who do tend to wear blue singlets, drive utes and listen to John Williamson and Slim Dusty. But for all of us that reservoir is there to draw upon.’’
There are plenty of examples of our selectivity in what we choose to adopt he tells Fairfax Media.
‘‘Most people over 40 pronounce schedule as I do with a ‘sh’. But most people under 40 pronounce it with an ‘sk’. That’s not Americanisation, that’s just a living language that changes and it’s the conversational group that you are in that does the changing.
‘‘On the 26 January 1788 you had people from Dorset and Norfolk, Scotland and Wales and Devonshire all thrust together trying to understand each other. That was an immensely powerful influence. Part of what it did was to produce a levelling which helped to produce the Australian accent, but also made people very aware of language. If you are trying to understand the bloke next to you and he is speaking in an odd way you become extremely conscious of language.’’
But what of the shortening of words such as ambulance, service station and garbage? Should that be allowed?
‘‘I am fascinated by the way the language works and I am not approving or disapproving of it,’’ he said. ‘‘When you come to the abbreviation of the language, which is a very powerful Australian characteristic, maybe it is laziness but I think it is more community signalling. It has a lot to do with saying: ‘You are part of our club’, that we recognise you as belonging to our language community.
‘‘I had a schoolteacher talk about why Australians shorten words and his theory was it’s because in the outback there’s dust in the wind and you have got to keep your mouth closed as much as possible. I think that’s a fascinating theory but it’s probably absolute rubbish.
‘‘It’s a living language and bits of it go away and new bits come in. When I was a kid my mother or aunts would have referred to a handbag or a purse as a billy bag. I think that’s gone. I don’t know of any kids when they double someone else on their push bike saying ‘I’ll give you a dink’ any more.’’
The infant Aussie language was born from four different elements – regional English dialects; the flash language or slang developed by crooks, so honest folk couldn’t understand them; Aboriginal words and convict terms. To that, with time, were added words from the bush, the gold fields, larrikin lingo, digger dialects and others.
‘‘I was a bit surprised at how linguistically inventive Queensland was, although it may be just that I am from NSW . . .’’ Mr Richards said. ‘‘Queensland, I think, was the origin of YMCA. ‘What’s for dinner ... YMCA’. Yesterday’s muck cooked again. It was a Queensland country town that came up with the expression ‘a methodist’s gate’.
‘‘You know what farm gates are like, they can be really hard to open and close because they are falling off the hinges. A methodist gate is a farm gate that is so hard to open or close that only a methodist can do it without swearing.’’
The Story of Australian English
(NewSouth) by Kel Richards costs $29.99 and is out this week.
EXCLUSIVE JARGON
Plain talk for high-risk ovarian disorder
• From: AAP
• March 25, 20134:44PM
WHEN Terori Hareko-Samios was diagnosed with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), she struggled to make sense of the disorder.
Contradictory advice, medical jargon and the heartbreak of infertility made understanding the hormonal condition harder than it needed to be.
"I'd go to hospitals and saw women with big pregnant bellies. I wasn't pregnant, so I was quite sad for a very long time," Ms Hareko-Samios said.
"It can really play on your psyche."
The Aboriginal women's support worker at Melbourne's Royal Women's Hospital said her experience inspired her to work with the Jean Hailes Foundation, a national non-profit organisation, on a booklet explaining the disorder.
Launched in Melbourne on Monday, the booklet relies on everyday language to raise awareness of PCOS in indigenous communities.
The hormonal disorder causes increased insulin levels leading to irregular periods, infertility, facial hair, diabetes and, potentially, heart disease.
Ms Hareko-Samios said one in three Aboriginal and Torres Strait islander women suffered from the disorder, many without knowing it, and lacked access to relevant information.
She remembers her frustration at getting six pages of detailed medical jargon and throwing it in the bin.
"It was again that frustration of not being to access that information I could relate to and pass on," she said.
Exercise, diet and weight loss can help manage the disorder.
RACIST LANGUAGE USED TO EXCLUDE
Western Bulldogs cheersquad member evicted from MCG for alleged homophobic remarks
Date
April 12, 2015 - 5:53PM
Daniel Cherny
Sports reporter
A Western Bulldogs cheersquad member was evicted from the MCG on Saturday for allegedly making homophobic remarks. The incident occurred during the Bulldogs' victory over Richmond, and was brought to the attention of authorities after a Tigers player raised the matter with security.
An MCC spokesman confirmed what had taken place.
"We received a complaint during the Richmond v Western Bulldogs match on Saturday regarding homophobic remarks made by a patron," he said.
"After an investigation, the patron was removed from the stadium and the individual's details have been passed on to the AFL."
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The Bulldogs are awaiting further information from the AFL, but are dealing with the incident extremely seriously.
"The club has a code of conduct established for its members, which prohibits such behaviour and it expects all Western Bulldogs members and fans abide by the principles stated in that code, as a condition of membership," the club said in a statement.
In a separate incident on Saturday, a fan alerted stadium security about an alleged racial comment directed at Western Bulldogs player Lin Jong. However once the authorities arrived, there was insufficient evidence to substantiate the claims and no further action was taken.
Tigers CEO Brendon Gale said his club condemned racial abuse.
"As a Club, we take any suggestion of racist behaviour very seriously, and we followed it up accordingly," he said.
"While no action was taken in this case, it is a reminder that any such behaviour is totally unacceptable and as a club we will not tolerate it.
"Lin Jong is a fine young player and we should be celebrating the diversity he brings to our game."
This is the third time in the last 12 months that the Bulldogs have been embroiled in a case of abuse directed from the crowd. In round seven last year, the Dogs apologised after Melbourne's indigenous defender Neville Jetta was subjected to racial abuse. Later in the season, a 70-year old Dogs fan was fined and had his club membership cancelled after racially taunting Sydney's indigenous stars Adam Goodes and Lance Franklin.
Hope these are alright, just the first articles that came from memory. Some more recent than others, but it gives the kind of general gist of what you need to look for
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These are just some off the top of my head, dunno how recent you want
Hope these are alright, just the first articles that came from memory. Some more recent than others, but it gives the kind of general gist of what you need to look for
:o
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These are just some off the top of my head, dunno how recent you want
INCLUSIVE SLANG
If you understand our lingo, you’re in
Tim Barlass
What does it mean to bandicoot? Would you be insulted to be called a bush foal? Or perhaps you know the meaning of a cock-eyed bob, a methodist gate or rat-and-fowl? Are there perhaps portholes in your coffin?
If you are struggling, it might be reasonable to think that our rich vocabulary, from a wide diversity of sources over more than two centuries, could be under threat.
Author Hugh Lunn, writing in Lost for Words in 2006, suggested the language was in its final death throes and beyond resuscitation.
But now it seems there is new hope. Our language is in a permanent state of transformation, with slang the fastest-changing element of all, he suggests. Aussie kids are displaying the same verbal inventiveness as their grandparents.
‘‘We may no longer be using cobber as part of our everyday speech, but we are constantly coining new and distinctively Australian expressions that display an unending verbal inventiveness,’’ he writes.
Journalist and Sydney radio presenter Kel Richards is on a quest to uncover Australia’s rich linguistic traditions. He believes that the majority of people simply don’t know the origins of most words.
‘‘Most of the language we use most of the time we don’t know where it comes from. We have absorbed (words and sayings) by a process of osmosis and we just use them.’’
Richards also rejects the idea that ‘‘our distinctive lingo is being drowned under a tsunami of Yankeespeak’’ – instead he says we pick and choose the Americanisms we want and reject others. Americans say drug stores. We say chemists. We fill up with petrol while Americans say gas.
That selectivity is an argument for the resilience of Aussie English, according to his book The Story of Australian English, to be published next week.
Also flowing quietly beneath the surface of even the most urban and streetwise Aussies is a deep reservoir of what he calls OBV – old bush vernacular.
‘‘Few Aussies speak OBV all the time. Those who do tend to wear blue singlets, drive utes and listen to John Williamson and Slim Dusty. But for all of us that reservoir is there to draw upon.’’
There are plenty of examples of our selectivity in what we choose to adopt he tells Fairfax Media.
‘‘Most people over 40 pronounce schedule as I do with a ‘sh’. But most people under 40 pronounce it with an ‘sk’. That’s not Americanisation, that’s just a living language that changes and it’s the conversational group that you are in that does the changing.
‘‘On the 26 January 1788 you had people from Dorset and Norfolk, Scotland and Wales and Devonshire all thrust together trying to understand each other. That was an immensely powerful influence. Part of what it did was to produce a levelling which helped to produce the Australian accent, but also made people very aware of language. If you are trying to understand the bloke next to you and he is speaking in an odd way you become extremely conscious of language.’’
But what of the shortening of words such as ambulance, service station and garbage? Should that be allowed?
‘‘I am fascinated by the way the language works and I am not approving or disapproving of it,’’ he said. ‘‘When you come to the abbreviation of the language, which is a very powerful Australian characteristic, maybe it is laziness but I think it is more community signalling. It has a lot to do with saying: ‘You are part of our club’, that we recognise you as belonging to our language community.
‘‘I had a schoolteacher talk about why Australians shorten words and his theory was it’s because in the outback there’s dust in the wind and you have got to keep your mouth closed as much as possible. I think that’s a fascinating theory but it’s probably absolute rubbish.
‘‘It’s a living language and bits of it go away and new bits come in. When I was a kid my mother or aunts would have referred to a handbag or a purse as a billy bag. I think that’s gone. I don’t know of any kids when they double someone else on their push bike saying ‘I’ll give you a dink’ any more.’’
The infant Aussie language was born from four different elements – regional English dialects; the flash language or slang developed by crooks, so honest folk couldn’t understand them; Aboriginal words and convict terms. To that, with time, were added words from the bush, the gold fields, larrikin lingo, digger dialects and others.
‘‘I was a bit surprised at how linguistically inventive Queensland was, although it may be just that I am from NSW . . .’’ Mr Richards said. ‘‘Queensland, I think, was the origin of YMCA. ‘What’s for dinner ... YMCA’. Yesterday’s muck cooked again. It was a Queensland country town that came up with the expression ‘a methodist’s gate’.
‘‘You know what farm gates are like, they can be really hard to open and close because they are falling off the hinges. A methodist gate is a farm gate that is so hard to open or close that only a methodist can do it without swearing.’’
The Story of Australian English
(NewSouth) by Kel Richards costs $29.99 and is out this week.
EXCLUSIVE JARGON
Plain talk for high-risk ovarian disorder
• From: AAP
• March 25, 20134:44PM
WHEN Terori Hareko-Samios was diagnosed with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), she struggled to make sense of the disorder.
Contradictory advice, medical jargon and the heartbreak of infertility made understanding the hormonal condition harder than it needed to be.
"I'd go to hospitals and saw women with big pregnant bellies. I wasn't pregnant, so I was quite sad for a very long time," Ms Hareko-Samios said.
"It can really play on your psyche."
The Aboriginal women's support worker at Melbourne's Royal Women's Hospital said her experience inspired her to work with the Jean Hailes Foundation, a national non-profit organisation, on a booklet explaining the disorder.
Launched in Melbourne on Monday, the booklet relies on everyday language to raise awareness of PCOS in indigenous communities.
The hormonal disorder causes increased insulin levels leading to irregular periods, infertility, facial hair, diabetes and, potentially, heart disease.
Ms Hareko-Samios said one in three Aboriginal and Torres Strait islander women suffered from the disorder, many without knowing it, and lacked access to relevant information.
She remembers her frustration at getting six pages of detailed medical jargon and throwing it in the bin.
"It was again that frustration of not being to access that information I could relate to and pass on," she said.
Exercise, diet and weight loss can help manage the disorder.
RACIST LANGUAGE USED TO EXCLUDE
Western Bulldogs cheersquad member evicted from MCG for alleged homophobic remarks
Date
April 12, 2015 - 5:53PM
Daniel Cherny
Sports reporter
A Western Bulldogs cheersquad member was evicted from the MCG on Saturday for allegedly making homophobic remarks. The incident occurred during the Bulldogs' victory over Richmond, and was brought to the attention of authorities after a Tigers player raised the matter with security.
An MCC spokesman confirmed what had taken place.
"We received a complaint during the Richmond v Western Bulldogs match on Saturday regarding homophobic remarks made by a patron," he said.
"After an investigation, the patron was removed from the stadium and the individual's details have been passed on to the AFL."
Advertisement
The Bulldogs are awaiting further information from the AFL, but are dealing with the incident extremely seriously.
"The club has a code of conduct established for its members, which prohibits such behaviour and it expects all Western Bulldogs members and fans abide by the principles stated in that code, as a condition of membership," the club said in a statement.
In a separate incident on Saturday, a fan alerted stadium security about an alleged racial comment directed at Western Bulldogs player Lin Jong. However once the authorities arrived, there was insufficient evidence to substantiate the claims and no further action was taken.
Tigers CEO Brendon Gale said his club condemned racial abuse.
"As a Club, we take any suggestion of racist behaviour very seriously, and we followed it up accordingly," he said.
"While no action was taken in this case, it is a reminder that any such behaviour is totally unacceptable and as a club we will not tolerate it.
"Lin Jong is a fine young player and we should be celebrating the diversity he brings to our game."
This is the third time in the last 12 months that the Bulldogs have been embroiled in a case of abuse directed from the crowd. In round seven last year, the Dogs apologised after Melbourne's indigenous defender Neville Jetta was subjected to racial abuse. Later in the season, a 70-year old Dogs fan was fined and had his club membership cancelled after racially taunting Sydney's indigenous stars Adam Goodes and Lance Franklin.
Hope these are alright, just the first articles that came from memory. Some more recent than others, but it gives the kind of general gist of what you need to look for
thank you <3
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we've only had
SAC 1: informal short answer
SAC 2: informal analytical commentary
SAC 3: formal short answer
SAC 4: formal analytical commentary (this friday)
after that we're finished unit 3 and moving on to unit 4
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I'm struggling to fit all my examples into shorter answers (for short answer q's obviously), can anyone offer some tips?
Also, can you use dot points in short answer questions? I have a sac tomorow, and I was wondering if I am really rushed, how much would I be penalised for just briefly listing each feature (and still explaining how it relates to register/audience or whatever the question is asking).
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I need help with my next sac,
it's on ethnolects
i need help with the following, paragraph.
It's about SAE, varieties and ethnolects and it is asking to explain key features defining these concepts, no idea exactly what to talk about
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Hey guys. can someone enlighten me with the follpowing
what is the concept of Standard Language?
what are the key features of Australian English?
What are the key features of a language variety?
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mane this thread needs some life to it!
Where are we all at in terms of sacs/aos?
Was anyone at the lecture today at acmi?
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mane this thread needs some life to it!
Where are we all at in terms of sacs/aos?
Was anyone at the lecture today at acmi?
we just finished a major sac on ethnolects and stuff,
have you started the cuttings journal/ exam prep?
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we just finished a major sac on ethnolects and stuff,
have you started the cuttings journal/ exam prep?
I've been keeping a journal in one note all year and got a shit ton of articles, now just need to go through and summarise/get quotes
Still got a few sacs before exam prep, we're taking it pretty slowly but thoroughly (I hope lol)
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I've been keeping a journal in one note all year and got a shit ton of articles, now just need to go through and summarise/get quotes
Still got a few sacs before exam prep, we're taking it pretty slowly but thoroughly (I hope lol)
I haven't done much for my cuttings journal D:
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wait
what's the cuttings journal for?
I remember our teacher explained it last year but I totes forgot as it hasn't been brought up at all this year ://
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wait
what's the cuttings journal for?
I remember our teacher explained it last year but I totes forgot as it hasn't been brought up at all this year ://
it's really just a compilation of all the examples you find that you would like to use in essays in lieu of your basic textbook examples. I never really kept them in the form of a cuttings journal but just a list of examples, who said them and where they came from.
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it's really just a compilation of all the examples you find that you would like to use in essays in lieu of your basic textbook examples. I never really kept them in the form of a cuttings journal but just a list of examples, who said them and where they came from.
wait so we need them in our essays? like for the final exam?
what kind of examples? is it just recent examples of how people use language or something etc
omg i'm so behind
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wait so we need them in our essays? like for the final exam?
what kind of examples? is it just recent examples of how people use language or something etc
omg i'm so behind
Yep pretty much. One of the best ways to make your essay stand out in the final exam is to use fresh and recent examples used in the media as opposed to the generic textbook examples. For example, if you wanted an example on covert racism you might consider looking into an interview segment earlier this year from Sunrise when one of the hosts said "Good on her" in regards to one twin inheriting fairer skin in contrast to her twin who inherited darker skin (it was called Twins Turning Heads iirc). It just shows that you've really been on the lookout for the way language is used in the real world and keeps your essay interesting as opposed to typical/overused examples.
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How is Australian English perceived by Linguists today and is this difference to how it is perceived by the general Australian Public
How do Australian people feel about their languages, use evidence from linguistic debate to support your points
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are you guys gonna write notes for the exam? or just skim over anything youve missed, and start smashing practise essays instead?
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I will try to do both lol.
I still need to revise up on some terms. :L (esp. U301 informal language cos I've forgotten most of it haha)
I don't think there's any point in me practising writing essays at this stage as I am not 100% confident with anything/everything :P
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I don't think there's any point in me practising writing essays at this stage as I am not 100% confident with anything/everything :P
That doesn't matter! Write them open book and not time-bound. By writing essays, you will find that you revise the content, too!
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Marking some short answer questions, and I wanted to ask some opinion:
- I described the use of conjunction in a narrative, e.g. "So we went to the shops, and we got some onions. And then we visited Grandma's cat". as a 'paratactic style' developed by using 'compound sentences' and 'conjunction and'. The answer describes it as 'listing'. Would I still be correct?
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Yes, I think that your answer would be accepted. It's tricky, reading over the provided answers - they're not always comprehensive. An examiner will look for ways to award marks; often there is more than one right answer.
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Just sussed out the exam cover sheet, only 4 questions for section a :/
I like my nice short 6 questions that you can smash out, now to practise the longer ones I guess