Evaluation and conclusion first draft of coursework

Evaluation

If I had to repeat this investigation I would change and improve several aspects. For example I would plan before hand what teacher would be with me whilst undergoing the investigation as because the investigation took place the week before the summer holidays I really struggled to find a teacher that would spend the time supervising. Also I would involve more children rather than just two and if I had extra time maybe even include both genders so I could compare the children not only through children with dyslexia and typically developing children but also the difference in vocabuarly and politeness strategies used in boys and girls.

Lexis conclusion

In conclusion I found that  child A tended to use more discourse markers such as ‘well’ more frequently than child B in order to make her speech more spontaneous. Whereas child B doesn’t always respond directly to the question asked of her. I also found that there is a difference in pronoun use between child A and B. For example, child A tends to use more 2^nd person pronouns such as ‘you’ however child B seems to only use first person pronouns. In graph 1, this is shown and supports my hypothesis. Another of my findings is relating to lexis is that child A has a higher average word count per turn taken than child B and even uses more politeness theory acts and face threatening acts than child B.

 

 Grammar conclusion

In conclusion, I found that child A doesn’t use any imperatives and child B uses two. This could be because child A uses more polinteness theory acts and face threatening acts like stated above which don’t involve imperatives. The past tense seems to be the most popular tense used by both children however, this could be because interrogatives were being asked by the other speaker, being myself, the teacher or the other child, and the interrogatives being asked were about past events.  I finally found out that chilkd A and child B’s syntactical structures are quite different. Child A continuously uses much longer and more complex sentences than child B. I think this is because  child A is more confident than child B when speaking spontaneously.