‘How
does a child’s language change dependant on who they are conversing
with?’
For my
investigation I am looking into the development of a child’s speech, including
the way that their language is subjective to who they are conversing with. This
includes child directed speech from the other participant(s) in the
conversation. I have chosen to investigate the development of a child’s speech
as I find the way they learn to talk very intriguing, and I am also interested
in how or why the way they talk may or may not vary depending on who they are
talking to. I am going to investigate what this is due to. For example: the
child’s natural instinct, child directed speech etc. Personally, I am
interested in the whole development of children, not just specifically how they
develop language but I am very interested to investigate theories based around
children developing language and try to apply these theories to the data that I
will collect.
There are
numerous theorists who have done personal investigations to try and answer the
unsolved question of where does language come from or how does it develop? Theorists
are constantly developing new ideas as to how
Kirstie, this is a good start. At the moment, this is a little bit straightforwrd, so really consider how you are going to enthuse the reader. It is not enough to say you find it intriguing - you need to intrigue me! You have done plenty of reading, so blind me with some science. Look at the sample intro as a style model.
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