This is a transcript of a video taken on the 24th
of September. There are two participants speaking: myself and my cousin K who
in the video is 3years and 9months old. We had just finished playing a snake
game with an orange feather boa when I asked him what his favourite colours
are.
I have labelled myself (m) and K (k).
M: what’s your favourite colour kai?
K: Orange
M: why?
K: Because your da dis (inaudible) scarf (mumbles) fevvers
M: what do you think of the colour pink?
K: I do love the (mumbles) colour pink
M: do you?
K: yeah!
M: why?
K: Because it’s really beautiful and the bright pink
M: what about the colour blue?
K: yeah
M: why do you like blue?
K: Because it’z my favourite blue corrouler, it makes all
the different colours love the mix up
M: and yellow?
K: yeah
M: why?
K: Because it’z the mixed up colourz nd the blue ann all the
everything is blue
M: what about black?
K: yeah it’z really dark
M: it’s a dark colour
K: yeah
M: does it make you feel happy or sad?
K: happy
M: black makes you happy?
K: yeah because,yeah cause, but in the dark rollercoasters
it makes me go huh kai in dark uh, woah there’s some scary stuff in there I
nowhere to get out of here den go and went up the bottom I say phew that was
close.
M: and what do you think of the colour purple?
K: yeah that’s my favourite colour
M: Oh I thought orange was your favourite colour?
K: It is, orange is my favourite colour as well
M: so you’ve got lots of favourite colours? (1) Yeah?
K: yeah
M: good
The theory that I have been looking at is Stephen Krashen he related his theory to Chomsky's LAD. He said that 'humans acquire language in only one way - by understanding messages or by receiving "comprehensible input"'.
K is at the age of language development where he can understand what I am asking him and answer back correctly. He also goes of on a tangent and starts telling me an anecdote which does relate to what I am asking him but it was amusing to listen to how his story had developed from me asking him about the colour black.
The theory that I have been looking at is Stephen Krashen he related his theory to Chomsky's LAD. He said that 'humans acquire language in only one way - by understanding messages or by receiving "comprehensible input"'.
K is at the age of language development where he can understand what I am asking him and answer back correctly. He also goes of on a tangent and starts telling me an anecdote which does relate to what I am asking him but it was amusing to listen to how his story had developed from me asking him about the colour black.
K answers "yeah" a total of 8 times, this could possibly be because he is unsure about what I am actually asking him or because he is trying to think about a correct response. I ask K a total of 16 questions, 4 of those asking him "why?" I was doing this to try to see how he responds to what I was asking him and for him to think about why he likes the colour.
I have been looking at Michael Halliday's (1978) suggested 7 stages of development which show the function of child's language. K would come under the final stage as the transcript proves that he is in the 'Imaginative stage' as he is accompanying his play which is helping his to explore his imagination which we can see in the part of the transcript where K is telling a story about a rollercoaster.
Bibliography:
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/vivian.c/SLA/Krashen.htm
I have been looking at Michael Halliday's (1978) suggested 7 stages of development which show the function of child's language. K would come under the final stage as the transcript proves that he is in the 'Imaginative stage' as he is accompanying his play which is helping his to explore his imagination which we can see in the part of the transcript where K is telling a story about a rollercoaster.
Bibliography:
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/vivian.c/SLA/Krashen.htm
Some interesting approaches here. Watch out: Halliday's functions are not stagees - they are labels for the different kinds of talk children do, so they aren't a progression. But an exploration of the functions of a child's talk in different contexts might be an interesting investigation (and one I've never seen!).
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