P.E.E of "All the things" transcript

"To what extent is this an example of a child led discourse?"

It could be said that this is not child led discourse as grandma and Evie have near enough the same amount of utterances (E:52:51:G) , the grandma takes up the most airtime, and leads most of the conversation. However this is more than likely because Evie's vocabulary isn’t as broad as her grandmas and she is two years and 7 months when this was recorded this means that she would have been in the telegraphic stage of her development. Although her short sentences "some more" and "yeah" don't necessarily show this.

G: "Two cats (2) how many things have we got in the picture?

E: inaudible

G: How many? Count them"

This is not only building the conversation but it is also helping Evie learn to count.

In the transcript it is clear to see that grandma elaborates on Evie’s sentence, or repeats what she has just said and adds tag questions, this is to make Evie contribute to the conversation. This is seen in part of the transcript:

E: Picture [pitf it] wolf

G: what's it we'll take a picture of wolf?

Evie says the word "Picture" in four different ways, I think by Evie repeating herself what she is doing is she is aware that she has pronounced it wrong and is trying to correct herself, this is also with the help of grandma as she keeps on repeating the word too.

Evie's grandma could help develop Evie’s language further by correcting her mispronunciation but instead she adapts her speech for the benefit of Evie which isn’t necessarily the right thing to do because it won’t help Evie in the future.