Language acquisition · A The course

LAA.2 — Texts and concepts

Language acquisition · SL / HL · syllabus-mapped notes

1. The three categories of text

   Personal, professional and mass media, defined by audience and relationship, not format.

2. Text types: language B

   The guide's examples for each category. Neither prescriptive nor exhaustive.

3. Text types: language ab initio

   A longer, more everyday list, including short functional texts a beginner can produce.

4. The five conceptual understandings

   Audience, context, purpose, meaning, variation, marked directly by paper 1 criterion C.