My investigation

For my investigation, I am focusing on child language acquisition. This investigation is based on my four year old nephew (Oscar) interacting with family members.

To collect my data, I have used my mobile phone as a voice recorder. I have six recording approximately 8-10minutes long of a conversation between Oscar and other members of my family. To make sure that I have reliable data, I took one recording every week. This is instead of doing day to day recordings as a particular event may have taken place which would change the conversation and affect my data. I have also made sure that I have enough data to look at to try and spot patterns and link my data with theory. I have also had permission forms from the parents of Oscar, and all of my family to confirm that they understand why I will be taking a series of voice recordings as well as an agreement.

I am interested in child language acquisition theory. I will be looking into the work of theorists such as Piaget, Chomsky and Bruner. I hope to find techniques used by both Oscar and the adults involved in the conversation that link to theory I have found.