assessment feedback

Assessment feedback

A01 – out of 10

• Written expression- ability to communicate in clear topics and paragraphs
• Use language terminology- lexis and grammar

A02 – out of 20

• Language concepts and issues
• Own examples
• Stereotypes
• Representation

How to get marks

A01:

•  Clear topic sentence
• Worthwhile introduction/conclusion
• Linguistic terminology
• Women use tag questions, intensifiers…
• Men use more imperatives
• Women use more modal verbs

A02

• Discussion and link to theories
• Does data reinforce or contradict?
• Be tentative
• It doesn’t prove a theory wrong- it just contradicts it
• Discuss or challenge theories if appropriate
• Don’t say Lakoff is wrong
• 3 D’s- make sure you know who did what!
• Consider other contextual factors of the data
• There are other factors other than gender, such as occupation…
• Consider written as well as spoken interaction
• Discuss stereotypes, how do you think men and women are told how to behave
• Status vs support  this is where you can link to Cameron
• Show own research

Improvement paragraph  

The average ‘did interrupt’ was also higher in males (with the exception of ‘woman D’ who had the same as ‘man E’). This suggests that the men used more oppressive discourse strategy to dominate the conversation. It also supports Tannen’s ‘order vs proposals’ idea as men use more oppressive declaratives to make themselves heard more and stand out as a somewhat ‘alpha male’. Whereas women would be more likely to wait their turn in speech then use more verbose language in accordance with Lakoff’s deficit theory                                     Universalteacher.org  

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