ENGB3 Child Language Acquisition - Exam Revision Practice
Steve Campsall | Friday July 02, 2010
Categories: Child Language Acquisition, An Introduction to Child Language Acquisition, CLA Exam Revision, Courses, A Level, AQA A Level, AQA A Level English Language B, ENGB3, Hot Entries
A Way to Analyse A Child’s Language
- Work out the transcript’s ‘big-picture’ – and remember that the transcript isn’t what you are analysing: it’s the original oral communication you need to be focusing on. The transcript is a mere shadow of this: you need to flesh out the scene and be there – be the participants! Try hard – it’s worth it. Use your imagination.
- For this unit (Language Change included) start your answer with a brief overview of the important discourse from which it derives. In CLA, you’ll need to be considering and mentioning briefly relevant linguistic aspects such as the stage of acquisition reached, relevant contextual and ‘audience’ aspects, and so on.
- Keep in mind that language is how people express their thoughts and ideas to someone else – and these are affected by aspects such as genre, context, audience and purpose; thus, the eventual linguistic (and paralinguistic) choices we make will reflect, to a greater or lesser degree, each of these four key aspects. In conversation, genre is less important but context reigns supreme.
Think of it this way: these four key aspects (‘G-CAP’) all act to constrain ‘free expression’ – and thus one way to analyse language is to consider how far the language diverges from ‘freely expressed thought’. Children have a further constraint:...
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