Writing for a non-specialist audience: Y13 revision, Y12 pre-reading

Here's another example of an article written about a linguistic issue, but aimed at a non-specialist audience.

Both the AS and the A-Level paper require you to write this type of article, so it's worth reading as many of them as possible. The more that you read, the more likely you are to be able to write in this kind of style.

Notice how it transforms the linguistic ideas into language that is accessible for a general audience, for example:

"How do they even begin to separate, or “segment,” individual words from the stream of language that they hear all around them all of the time?"

Year 13 have learnt about segmenting in CLD this term. They should be able to use it hand-in-hand with the term 'gestalt expression'.