Coursework

In my coursework I plan to carry out how adults of different genders and ages talk to my niece Lyliee, and how the language they use differs and how far gender has an effect or whether it has an effect on this. I will use Lakoff's deficit language theory.


I'm going to collect and transcribe different daily activities in Lyliees routine and how my mum dad and sister speak to the baby. The problems that could occur is if different adults do different activities with Lyliee it is less comparable, and if the adults are made to do the same task it would skew the data as it would be forced and set up.


My sample data will hopefully show me what theory's I can expect to find in my actual data and highlight the problems or issues that could come up, like comparability issues or the participants acting different because they are aware they are being filmed.

Phonics

noun

noun: phonics

1. a method of teaching people to read by correlating sounds with symbols in an alphabetic writing system.

    

   Advantages of phonics-

    

   - helps children learn phonemes

   - helps children decipher words

   - helps children with progressive language

   - helps writing ability

    

   http://enlightenme.com/learning-phonics/

    

   Disadvantages of phonics-

    

    - Able readers damaged by phonics

    - 'Mechanical exercise' 

    - Approach to learning phonetics is strict

    - Over emphasis on phonics can do more harm than good

   
   

   http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-25917646

   http://www.theguardian.com/teacher-network/teacher-blog/2014/mar/04/reading-lessons-phonics-world-book-day

   
   

   
   The more up to date articles I read above^ in comparison with 'The sound and fury of the phonic boom' (1999) seem to suggest that teaching phonics can affect children adversly to previously suggested, and the children who already have the ability to read may be made worse by the implementation of phonic teaching.

   
   

Research

Chomsky:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/10/opinion/fish-scholarship-and-politics-the-case-of-noam-chomsky.html?ref=topics&_r=0
http://www.simplypsychology.org/language.html


Chomsky argued that children will never acquire the tools needed for processing an infinite number of sentences if the language acquisition mechanism was dependent on language input alone.

Consequently, he proposed the theory of Universal Grammar: the idea that biological grammatical categories, such as a noun category and a verb category that facilitate the entire language development in children and overall language processing in adults.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfiHd6DyuTU&feature=player_embedded