Mini essay along with an overview

Mini essay example, along with an overview:




The child is in a well-known environment and can be expected to be around the telegraphic stage. The child uses three and more words combined in reply to Grandma. The grandmother develops the zone of approximation (ZOA) to help scaffold Evie’s language. This can make a significant impact on the lexis being discussed as the grandmother uses local topics to her engage her granddaughter.  ZOP has led the Grandma to support the child by using virtuous errors which has led to scaffolding.

The telegraphic stage has been established although it can be argued that the Evie is a now entering the post-telegraphic stage. This is shown as Evie does various errors though the process of phonological development. This was perceived through Halliday’s theory as the child uses fake play.

It is argued that Child Directed Speech (CDS) is used by ‘western societies’ or by parts of cultural or classes of people however this is not proven by other studies who argue that there are other ways to help the development of children.

 However this transcript shows that CDS is essential to help a child progress as the evidence has shown that in order to further expand a child’s language CDS greatly benefits them as there are many factors to do this.  An example of this is positive reinforcement and negative reinforcement directed towards the child. Zone of Proximal development has been evident in the transcript as the Grandma has helped to guide the child; this has happened as she guides the conversation by setting the agenda and by using local topics. CDS has also played a huge part in Skinners theory of positive and negative reinforcement.

The environment that Evie is playing in is likely to affect the outcome of the transcript because she is in well-known surroundings and grandma can discussions local topics more informally. This can then lead to Evie taking leaps and bounds in language improvement.