Evie Transcript

Overview

In this transcript we establish virtuous errors, phonological development and the theorist Chomsky on overgeneralisation. This is normal for Evie as she is in the telegraphic stage .She is the main powerful participant and she we see her developing her social skills. She is becoming comfortable with her speech while her grandma has been very supportive and a prompted guidance of Evie’s language.

 

There is an Instrumental function (Halliday’s theory), Evie”Some more” her language expresses her needs, she wants some more, she is responsive which makes her Grandma understand and on the same level of “small talk” speech; it gets the point across efficiently.

Grandma sets the agenda “how many? count them”, Evie is representative “one two three four five”, this shows she is in proximal development; she has been taught how to count and has responded well. Grandma then uses positive reinforcement “very good” to be supportive and proud that she has counted confidently.

Grandma appears to be the powerful participant so far in the transcript. She uses a declarative to   Evie “go on then you find the bath”. Without Evie responding its her actions that make grandma carry on speaking “oh yeah that’s it” she has corrected Evie and Evie has modelled to what Grandma has said.

 There is humour in the conversation between Evie and Grandma, the subject is Evie is smiling this links into imagination, this is a social skill that is being developed, and Grandma is very supportive.

Evie is in the telegraphic stage, she uses concrete nouns for example “kangaroo” Grandma then asks questions about the kangaroo, by doing this activity grandma is achieving Evie’s positive responses. Evie then further on uses a telegraphic sentence “he to the things” Evie was trying to say the kangaroo was in the house by wanting to say “he’s in there” or “he’s with the things” this is scaffolding and a adult utterance, essentially this is beyond Evie’s learning capacity,this relates to Bruner’s Scaffolding theory.

Evie makes an unclear response “pandip pandip” Grandma is responds with “yeah” this is positive reinforcement, this is to continue with the conversation to then further develop and understand what Evie was trying to say, this is an overgeneralisation (relates to Chomsky's theory).