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Time: 9 hours
Level: Intermediate
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 Introduction Resource- In this unit you will consider key developments in the English language from the end of the fifteenth century to the nineteenth century. You will study how the social and political changes of this period...
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- 1 Word classes Resource
- Look at an extract from An A to Z of English by clicking on the video clip below. In this extract poet Michael Rosen acts out a confusing lesson on grammar. How many of the questions would you have got...
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| | 2 ‘Modernity and English as a national language’
- 2 ‘Modernity and English as a national language’ Resource
- Now read Chapter 3, ‘Modernity and English as a national language’, attached below. This chapter describes key developments in the English language from the end of the fifteenth century to the nineteenth...
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- 3 Standardisation Resource
- As you have read in Activity 6, the period in which modern English arose was characterised by fundamental changes in the structure of society. The key linguistic process associated with these changes is...
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| | 4 Lexicography and etymology
- 4 Lexicography and etymology Resource
- Robert Cawdrey's (1604) dictionary, actually called A Table Alphabetical of Hard Usual English Words provides some early illustrations describing use of the English language. The full text version of...
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- 5 Unit summary Resource
- At the beginning of the period you've studied in this unit, English was an important written language, but was still secondary in status to Latin in the domains of Church and scholarship. Political and...
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| | References and Acknowledgements | |
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