Investigation: When does language begin to affect gender?
Data collection:
- Variety of different age groups that can show a possible change in language
- I am going to collect data from boys and girls ages 4/7/9/12
- I'm going to record 8 girls/boys from each age group (this will give me reliable comparisons as well as a big enough sample data to make it reliable
- I am going to record children speaking, to do this I am going to present them with the same images to try and encourage conversation)
- The boys and girls will both be shown the same images and hopefully be around the same table so I can clearly see how boys and girls speak when they are around each other
- I may record the boys speaking with each other and then record the girls speaking with each other and then record both genders speaking
- I will analyse the (from my recordings) the typical gender language from Deborah Tanning
- Including: length of sentences, length of pauses, length of text in words, number of speaking turns, number of interruptions, tag questions
- Some children may be shy and not want to speak
- May be overlapping, so I wouldn't be able to understand clearly from my recordings what some children were saying
- Possible friendships between some children may encourage the speaking of certain people and not others
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