Coursework Ideas:

One of my hypothesis': Compare language from children and see how girls and boys speak differently and how gender affects their language
- I will conduct a experiment by printing some pictures which would stereotypically appeal to girls and other pictures for boys (including pictures of fairy's, enchanted forests, football matches ect.)
- I aim to get pictures that have lots of detail in them to encourage conversation, I will record their conversations and then compare language
- I am going to collect my data from a local Brownies unit (which would be girls aged 5-7- around 20) and visit a primary school and do the same experiment on a group of boys
- I will experiment on ages 5/9/12
- I expect the children to act differently while I'm recording them because of the observers paradox but I am going to try to make them feel more comfortable and ask them questions to encourage conversation
- The data will help me evaluate my hypothesis
My other hypothesis: Different language used in CBBC, CBB's, BBC and compare how language changes to suit the target age group (I would be exploring CLA, gender as well as power)
- Collect the data by watching the shows and then record voices and type it up
- Compare language and how each one changes, I could also compare different speakers from different genders too (female and male presenter from CBBC, female and male presenter CBB's, female and male presenter from BBC)