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Title: Pearson Edexcel Level 3 GCE 9EN0/03 English Language Advanced PAPER 3: Investigating Language June 2024 + MARK SCHEME
Description: Mark Scheme (Results) Summer 2024 Pearson Edexcel GCE In English Language (9EN0) Paper 3: Investigating Language

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PAPER 3: Investigating Language

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Source Booklet (enclosed)

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Topic: Global English
Subtopic: Belizean Kriol
1 Read the data provided on page 4 of the source booklet
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To what extent is Text B representative of the language of drag queens?
(Total for Question 2 = 15 marks)
Topic: Language and Journalism
Subtopic: Editorials

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To what extent is Text D representative of the language of party political and
election broadcasts?
(Total for Question 4 = 15 marks)
Topic: Regional Language Variation
Subtopic: Greater Manchester

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Topic: Global English
Subtopic: Belizean Kriol
6 ‘The development and promotion of Belizean Kriol is essential for allowing its speakers to
represent their own identity
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You should consider:


relevant language frameworks and levels



any relevant social, historical, technological and cultural factors
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relevant language frameworks and levels



any relevant social, historical, technological and cultural factors
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Topic: Regional Variation
Subtopic: Greater Manchester

10 ‘The Greater Manchester variety is no longer the distinct variety it once was and is now
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Topic: Global English
Subtopic: Belizean Kriol
Text A
Text A is a transcript of a cooking video published on YouTube in 2012
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In this video, she is making a popular Belizean food known as Fry Jack or Fry Cake,
which she intends to cook at an alternative location
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) you done look pon the /dɪ/ bare /bɪə/ pantry show (
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powder /pɔədə/ and then we add the little bit of /lɪbɪtæ/ milk this only about four ounce
so make we get this working [mixes ingredients together] so I working the baking powder
into /ɪnə/ the flour and now I add the little bit of milk (
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this fry jack but Joe come from Saint El so when I meet him him call it fry cake I think that
it the same thing (
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add any kind of water to it okay (
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) so this a way you want to just knead it up just flour baking
powder and milk or flour baking powder water but I promise you if you put water in your
fry jack going to /gwɑn/ stiff that a one who get their fry jack will broke all of them teeth
(
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/mi/ ring with the flour going to /gɑn/ get up in there
Glossary
Joe – the speaker’s husband
Saint El – Saint Elena, a large city in Belize
brickly – brittle

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Topic: Language and Gender Identity
Subtopic: The Language of Drag Queens
Text B
Text B is a transcript from an interview for Glamour magazine’s YouTube channel
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The three interviewees appear alone on screen, but it is clear the
other interviewees are present
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Key
E = Eureka

S = Shangela

B = Bob the Drag Queen

(
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) she was just so sweet and humble and
it was just really cool because I was like oh my god Shangela I love you so much and she
was like oh I love you too girl /gɜ:rl/ mama you know and now I work with her on this like
amazing show called “We’re Here” so it’s like (
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) with Kandy Muse (
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) I wrote a song for you and I want you to
perform this song and I think I brought it on like a thumb drive (
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) um [laughs] I’m just kidding but I remember like working with her on tour
the Christmas tour specifically (
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) we used to play
Uno (
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) the demons the demons are coming out of me [off-screen the other drag
queens are screaming and laughing] Bob made a custom card that said draw ten cards if
your name rhymes (
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) it was stupid
S: I would describe my friendship with Bob and Eureka as extremely vibrantly chaotic (
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) we like to call each other and when we’re together we really give a
lot of love /lɜ::v/ to each other you know what I mean it’s not that it’s not that friendship
where we’re like [performs an exaggeratedly high voice] we call each other every day and
every night [reverts to own voice] but when we see each other there’s always a lot of love

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) through some of the
darker times you know losing (
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) you know I consider
them more than friends you know they’re my chosen family
Glossary
Mickey’s in WeHo – a gay bar in West Hollywood

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Topic: Language and Journalism
Subtopic: Editorials
Text C
Text C is an editorial published on 24th September 2023 in The Guardian
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The
pattern has been clear for a while
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From 10
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3% in 2022-23
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This week’s report from the research agency Public First, probing
attitudes through discussions with focus groups, called the situation a “full-blown
national crisis”
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As the teacher and writer Lola Okolosie observed recently, school
is “an anchor to society”
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Since the pupils most likely to be absent include those on free school
meals and with special educational needs, low attendance is a form of social exclusion
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Covid broke habits
and altered attitudes to infectious illness, particularly in households with vulnerable
members
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But the break from
classrooms weakened some pupils’ connection to their school
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Parents’ greater willingness to break rules with
term-time holidays has also been noted
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A review proposed by Sir Martyn Oliver, who is expected to be the next head
of Ofsted, should feature pupils’ views and voices
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Headteachers are clear that lack of food and money is one reason why children
stay away
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So will the shortage of provision for pupils with special needs
and disabilities
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Ministers are to blame for the current school buildings crisis, the loss of welfare
specialists due to cuts, and the refusal to fund the Covid recovery package recommended
by experts
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The government also bears responsibility for the collapse in teacher recruitment and
retention – one of the most serious of all the problems facing schools
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This is the gravest of failures
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Topic: Language and Power
Subtopic: Party Political and Election Broadcasts
Text D
Text D is the transcript for the ‘2019 Party Election Broadcast by The Green Party’ taken
from YouTube
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Lucas is shown with a background filter of woodland
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) = micropause

bold = emphasis

[ _ ] = brief cuts to images other than Caroline Lucas talking
the Green Party is different (
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) we’re not
afraid to listen to you (
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) not least
because of Brexit (
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) but I believe there is hope (
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) [still images of people working in communities] hope for a safer
happier future (
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) in May you can send
a clear message to politicians that you want change (
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) you know this year
a lot of people tell me that the party they used to vote for just hasn’t delivered (
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) you can vote
for what gives you hope (
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) now I’m not sitting in a studio with
bright lights recording a big-budget film (
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) [still images of councillors with constituents] last year a record number of Green Party
councillors were elected (
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) Andrew Cooper made sure every home in Huddersfield and beyond was fitted
with free insulation (
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) Shahin Ashraf along with Max McLoughlin
[video of councillors in green space] and Andy Hodgson made real change happen (
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)
because of the Green Party local families can still connect with nature and escape the
pressures of daily life (
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)
because of the Green Party [images of new homes] families have more affordable housing
options and the chance to build a secure future (
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) because of the Green Party workers are getting a fair salary for a fair day’s
work (
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) if
you want something to hope for (
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) if you think things
urgently need to change [video shows ‘Join the Green Party’ link embedded] (
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) our councillors are real change makers and you can be too (
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The interview was recorded in December 2022
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/_ / = phonemic transcription

JK = Jimmy Kelly

(
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) have a chat with Chris or have
you just been /bɪn/ has it just been all business at the minute
JK: it’s just all business I’ve been all over er sparring /spɑrɪn/ as I’ve said I’ve done a
couple of camps with Kell Brook I’ve sparred like er good Ukrainians and that in Poland
I’ve gone to the camps with them er I’ve done obviously ones in Marbella I’ve sort of
known my /mi/ role but I don’t turn up like a sparring partner mentality like just to go in
there and get my head punched in like I’ve got my /mɑɪ/ own ambition but you know I
respect that they’re like in a better fight mode and I don’t try and be like dead friendly
and that like you know yesterday I probably said like three /fri/ or four words to Chris you
know what I mean just like hi nice to meet you /yɜ/ and then at the end I just said right
I’ll see you Friday you know Ronnie Davis just I were going through him he said I do this
many rounds and all this sort of stuff but I just keep my /mi/ distance really I mean he’s
/i:z/ got a he’s got his mind on a job and I’ve got my mind obviously on (
...
) obviously Chris is deep in camp now preparing for his fight
with er Liam Smith which is a really good fight which we’re all looking forward to
you know (
...
) I mean I done my own running /rʊnɪn/
and a bit of exercise today but yeah he’s deep in camp he’s obviously working hard he’s
getting good rounds in and yeah it’ll be a good fight
AK: have you found it beneficial getting in there with someone like him because he’s kind
of an unorthodox style really (
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exhaustive
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alternative response
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identify which Assessment Objective is being targeted by each bullet point within the
level descriptors
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When deciding how to reward an answer, examiners should consult both the indicative
content and the associated marking grid(s)
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Candidates will be
placed in the level that best describes their answer according to each of the
Assessment Objectives described in the level
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making their judgements
• the mark grid identifies which Assessment Objective is being targeted by each bullet
point within the level descriptors
• indicative content is exactly that – they are factual points that candidates are likely
to use to construct their answer
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is the examiner’s responsibility to apply their professional judgement to the
candidate’s response in determining if the answer fulfils the requirements of the
question
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Analysis
Candidates may comment on some of the following features:
Phonology:
• inconsistent evidence of th-stopping, e
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‘things’ and ‘this’
• diphthongisation of certain vowels, e
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‘bare’
• evidence of rhoticity on some words, e
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‘first’
• use of schwa endings, e
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‘change’ and ‘in’
• inconsistent use of labio-velar approximant /w/ following /g/, e
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‘going to’
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• use of ‘no’ as negative marker, e
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‘no want’
• inconsistent use of pronouns, e
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‘me no fraid for change,’ ‘I working the baking
powder’
• omission of auxiliary verbs, e
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‘we going’
• reduction of infinitive form, e
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‘I no want do the full recipe’
• construction of present tense, e
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‘done look pon’
• morphological construction of adverbs and adjectives, e
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‘authentical’, ‘brickly’
• lack of pluralisation marker, e
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Question 2
Topic: Language and Gender Identity
Subtopic: The Language of Drag Queens
General
Candidates should show an awareness of a range of theories linking language,
gender identity and representation as well as some of the typical conventions of the
language of drag queens
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• use of imperatives, e
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‘listen to this’
• use of ‘like’ and ‘you know’ as fillers and narrative markers
• use of multiple adjectives/adverbs to construct phrases, e
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‘extremely
vibrantly chaotic,’ ‘amazing hilarious fun
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Students may make links between the readership of The Guardian and its political
ideologies
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Syntax:
• foregrounding to reflect viewpoint, e
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adverbials: ‘by eroding staff autonomy
and professionalism’
• patterning of simple and complex sentences to highlight editorial opinion, e
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‘The concern is justified
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Discourse:
• headline denotes certainty of viewpoint
• repetition of key elements, e
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‘full-blown national crisis’, ‘workforce crisis’
• aspects of spoken language, e
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‘Pretty much everyone’
• impersonal address, e
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‘there is also much agreement’
• problem and solution structure, e
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‘More breakfast clubs…
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Pragmatics:
• headline represents newspaper, e
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‘The Guardian view’
• assumption of shared values, e
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‘serious flaws in the system designed by the
government’
• creation of an antagonist, e
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‘Ministers are to blame’
• reference to wider problem, e
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Question 4
Topic: Language and Power
Subtopic: Party Political and Election Broadcasts
General
Candidates should be aware of the conventions of the language of party political and
election broadcasts and some of the strategies used to establish and maintain power
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Candidates may comment on some of the following features:
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use of emotive lexis, e
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‘destroyed’
use of sophisticated lexis, e
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‘political establishment’
use of political lexical field, e
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‘councillors’
use of comparative adjectives, e
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‘better fairer’, ‘safer happier’
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• use of action and consequence structure, e
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‘because of the Green Party,’
• repetition of key ideas, e
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change and honesty
• aspects of conversational language, e
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‘You know’
• use of personalisation through naming councillors
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g
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g
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Students may consider gender and topic as influential factors on
the way language is used
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• use of ‘dead’ as intensifier
• use of ‘like’ as a narrative filler
• candidates may explore evidence of dialect levelling in terms of lexis
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g
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Students may comment on the lack of some distinct features due to topic and
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grid
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Descriptive
• Knowledge of methods of language analysis is largely
unassimilated
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• Knowledge of concepts and issues is limited
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• Lists contextual factors and language features
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General understanding
• Recalls methods of language analysis that show general
understanding
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• Summarises basic concepts and issues
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• Describes construction of meaning in the data
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• Applies relevant methods of language analysis to data with
clear examples
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Clear use of
terminology
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• Explains construction of meaning in data by
making relevant links to contextual factors and
language features
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Controls
the structure of response with effective transitions,
carefully chosen language and use of terminology
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• Makes inferences about the construction of meaning in
data by examining relevant links to contextual factors and
language features
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Uses
sophisticated structure and expression with
appropriate register and style, including use of
appropriate terminology
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Indicative content
Question 6
Candidates will have researched/investigated various data so detailed indicative content
is not applicable
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Should include references to some of the following points:



relevant language frameworks and levels of Belizean Kriol, for example:
phonology, morphology, lexis and semantics, grammar and syntax, discourse,
pragmatics
influence of any relevant social, historical, technological and cultural factors on
Belizean Kriol
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Topic: Language and Gender Identity
Subtopic: The Language of Drag Queens
Possible content:





candidates may argue for or against this statement, or take a balanced
approach, using data from their research/investigation to support their
views
candidates are likely to consider developments in linguistic theory linked
to gender, sexuality and identity
candidates are likely to engage with the concept of speech communities
and ideas about networking and sociolect
candidates may explore developments in gender representation over time
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Question 8
Candidates will have researched/investigated various data so detailed indicative content
is not applicable
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Should include references to some of the following points:



relevant language frameworks and levels used in editorials: lexis and semantics,
grammar and syntax, graphology, discourse, pragmatics
influence of social, cultural, technological and historical changes on editorials
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Topic: Language and Power
Subtopic: Party Political and Election Broadcasts
Possible content:





candidates may argue for or against this statement, or take a balanced
approach, using data from their research/investigation to support their
views
candidates are likely to consider the regulations governing party political
and election broadcasts
candidates may explore ideas about the goals and purposes of the
language of party political and election broadcasts
candidates may explore different linguistic strategies employed by party
political and election broadcasts to establish and maintain power
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Indicative content
Question 10
Candidates will have researched/investigated various data so detailed indicative content
is not applicable
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Should include references to some of the following points:



relevant language frameworks and levels of the Greater Manchester variety of
English, for example: phonology, morphology, lexis and semantics, grammar and
syntax, discourse, pragmatics
influence of any relevant social, historical, technological and cultural factors on
the Greater Manchester variety
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AO1 = bullet point 1
Level

Mark

AO2 = bullet point 2

AO3 = bullet point 3

AO4 = bullet point 4

Descriptor (AO1, AO2, AO3, AO4)

0

No rewardable material
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Recalls limited range of terminology and makes
frequent errors and technical lapses
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Uses a descriptive
approach or paraphrases with little evidence of applying
understanding to the data
...
Makes limited
links between these and the construction of meaning in the
data
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Level 2

7–12

General understanding
• Recalls methods of language analysis that show general
understanding
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• Summarises basic concepts and issues
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• Describes construction of meaning in the data
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• Gives obvious similarities and differences
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Level 3

13–18

Clear relevant application
• Applies relevant methods of language analysis to data with
clear examples
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Clear use of
terminology
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• Explains construction of meaning in data by making relevant
links to contextual factors and language features
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Mostly supported
by clear application of theories, concepts and methods
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Controls the
structure of response with effective transitions, carefully
chosen language and use of terminology
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• Makes inferences about the construction of meaning in data
by examining relevant links to contextual factors and
language features
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Carefully selects and
embeds use of theories, concepts and methods to draw
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Level 5

25–30

Critical and evaluative
• Critical application of methods of language analysis with
sustained examples
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• Evaluative application of a wide range of concepts and issues
to the data
...
Evaluates construction of meaning in data
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Critically applies theories,
concepts and methods to data
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Title: Pearson Edexcel Level 3 GCE 9EN0/03 English Language Advanced PAPER 3: Investigating Language June 2024 + MARK SCHEME
Description: Mark Scheme (Results) Summer 2024 Pearson Edexcel GCE In English Language (9EN0) Paper 3: Investigating Language