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Module 1 focuses on the most "written-like" features of language. It discusses how written language tends to be distinct from spoken language, with its own functions, features, and means of expression. Written language is used to reflect on experience in a planned, edited way and can be understood across contexts, whereas spoken language is more spontaneous. Written language also has greater lexical density, packing more meaning into words through precision of vocabulary.

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Module 1 Topic 4

Module 1 focuses on the most "written-like" features of language. It discusses how written language tends to be distinct from spoken language, with its own functions, features, and means of expression. Written language is used to reflect on experience in a planned, edited way and can be understood across contexts, whereas spoken language is more spontaneous. Written language also has greater lexical density, packing more meaning into words through precision of vocabulary.

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Module 1: Mode Continuum

Most ‘written-like’ features


 Build knowledge of written language, including its features, functions and
graphological expression
 Understand complexity of language in terms of lexical density

Written Language: - Tends to be distinct from spoken language


- Has its own function, feature, and ways of meaning
o Priority to those that need to be learnt explicitly by
students.
- Language in Reflection
o Used to reflect on experience, in a way that is planned,
edited, and thought through in advance
- Independent of Context
o Explicit enough about its meanings that it can be
understood across contexts
- Product-Like
o Typically read as a final product, polished. Unlike
spoken, which is spontaneous and unfolding.
- Expression:
o Layout, font, punctuation, image

Complexity in Lexical Density:


Language:
 The degree of lexical words and their precision
 Written language is often more lexically dense, whereas spoken
language is often less lexically dense
 A simple measure of how much ‘meaning’ is packed into the
words of a text.

Grammatical Intricacy:

 Spoken language is often more grammatically intricate,


whereas written language is often less grammatically intricate.

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