The first thing we discussed was Alison's feedback on the recording that she sent us regarding our proposal. The main issue was the way we had worded certain parts of our research project, as we had worded them as objectives as opposed to questions and we should be researching rather than evaluating. Therefore, we decided to change these to:
- What is the range of paralinguistic features used by the narrators and characters of these programmes and how far are they consistent with the features that have been established in CDS?
- To what extent are pitch and intonation used in these programmes and in what context do they occur?
- What are the various structural elements, such as repetition within these programmes and how does this help to aid and develop child language acquisition?
Next, we decided we decided who would be analysing what programme and agreed that we would begin to look into some of these programmes and each write on the blog :
- Which programme we are analysing
- The age range of the programme (As suggested in Alison's feedback)
- How we intend to find these programmes (Whether it is a source such as you tube or the television etc)
There was further discussion about where we were heading next with our project, and as a group we agreed that by the end of reading week we will all have done the appropriate readings that we decided to use. Also by this time we will have gathered enough analysis to bring to the meeting, so that we can cross refer our data and findings.
Agenda for next week
- Assign everyone with the appropriate readings for reading week.
- Further discussion on how we will each analyse our selected programme
Good to see the progress being made with this. Your second question is still not quite accurate, I think, as any utterance must make use of pitch and intonation to some extent! You can't answer the second part of your third question, as you can't collect any direct evidence about children's language development within this project. You could perhaps reframe it as 'how are these consistent with the features that have been found to help in children's linguistic development?'.
ReplyDeleteI strongly advise that you draw up a list of criteria to help you decide which (segments of) programmes to include in your data. I would have thought that one such criterion would be that the section includes direct address by an adult to the child audience, as other kinds of speech, such as characters addressing each other, seem to me to be rather different in their potential as data for answering your questions. Hope these comments help, and well done again on keeping this project developing very clearly.