English LanguageYears 12–13Language Investigation

Language investigation / coursework

Conduct an independent language investigation collecting and analysing primary language data

What you'll learn

  1. 1

    Imagine you're a detective looking at a crime scene — but instead of clues, you're looking at words and sentences.

  2. 2

    What is a language investigation about?

  3. 3

    Here's a real text from a friend's message: 'omg that was so funny lol 😂'

  4. 4

    Let's investigate this text together: 'u coming 2 the party? 🎉'

  5. 5

    Now you investigate this text: 'I'm so tired 😴 gonna crash early tonight'

  6. 6

    What language feature is 'gonna' in the text?

  7. 7

    Which of these is a good research question for a language investigation?

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