Language learning at home and school

Chapter 8. Variations in adult use of referring expressions during storytelling in different interactional settings

“…In short, older studies comparing mothers and teachers (Granowsky & Krossner, 1970, cited by Rondal, 1978 have concluded that preschool teachers' speech differs from mothers' speech by its greater mean length of utterances and greater syntactic complexity, but also its clearly smaller range of vocabulary. In their study, Geekie and Raban (1994) noted that the speech addressed by teachers to small groups of four 5year-old pupils had features similar to those found among mothers talking to their children during goal-oriented activities like looking for objects.…”

“…Most of the CDS research has focused on children under three years of age (Gallaway & Richards, 1994;Geekie & Raban, 1994;Rondal, 1978).…”

“…These studies showed that the teachers' discourse has different effects on pupils' productions. With the exception of Vinel (2014), the scarce studies comparing adults with different statuses or in different contexts (Geekie & Raban, 1994;Hudelot, 1999Hudelot, , 2007Rondal, 1978) have pertained to discursive or structural aspects. In short, older studies comparing mothers and teachers (Granowsky & Krossner, 1970, cited by Rondal, 1978 have concluded that preschool teachers' speech differs from mothers' speech by its greater mean length of utterances and greater syntactic complexity, but also its clearly smaller range of vocabulary.…”

Hogyan beszélgetnek a gyerekek? A társalgási készségek 5–7 éves kor között

“…Lényeges kutatások folytak továbbá interakciós szociolingvisztikai keretben is, elsősorban az intézményes diskurzusokra és az azokban megjelenő szerepekre, beszédmódokra fókuszálva; ezek többek között a gyerekek iskolai interakcióit vizsgálták, például az osztálytermi diskurzusszabályok elsajátítását vagy a diákok diskurzusstratégiáit bemutatva (Geekie & Raban, 1994), vagy a gyerekek érvelését elemezve (Arendt, 2015).…”