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Investigation Title: How does language change as children grow up?
For my investigation I intend to visit a primary school in order to get some data in which I will use for my investigation. I will do this by separating different classes into three groups, the first group will be made up of 6 girls, the second group will be 6 boys and the third group will consist of 3 boys and 3 girls, for the last group I will randomly select 4 from each group to make my investigation more reliable. By separating the groups like this I can clearly see how different each of the groups speak between each other when the other sex isn't there, this will be interesting to analyse and see after my investigation. Each group would then have to take part in an activity which involves 3 pictures being placed in front of them (some of the pictures will be stereotypically mostly aimed at females other at males, and one will be a gender neutral image) once the pictures are in front of them, I would like the children to talk about them, while they do this I will record them speaking. Every group will be presented with the same 3 images. I will then repeat this experiment for ages 4, 7 and 9 this will hopefully give me accurate comparability data to support my investigation about 'how language begins to affect gender?'. From my recordings I will then annotate any stereotypical language use for both males and females as well as annotating some theories from Deborah Tanning (including overlapping, length of sentences and pauses, tag questions, number of speaking turns taken, politeness and formalities) I think this will especially be seen when both sexes are speaking between each other. After I have done this, I intend to analyse my annotated phrases and then explain the effect that the language is having and how language is changing as children grow up. My only concerns are if only certain members of the group are speaking so I will not get a variety of language to analyse. To make my data as accurate as possible I will not direct the conversation only encourage it by trying to get the children to elaborate on their points if the conversation is quite and would limit my data, however I dont want to talk too much as this may decrease the reliability of my data. I could write some prompts for them to use, or circle specific things in the pictures for them to comment on, this would mean I would talk less but I would be directing the conversation. Therefore, I will only write 3 senetnces for each picture that will not highlight anything in specific, the children will then be able to awnser the questions and give me reliable data for me to use.