Commenting on my own analysis

Commenting on my own analysis

Task: Comment on your own analysis about whether the data you suggested you would collect would be suitable and why/why not. 

This is what I said I would change or replace my analysis with:

If I was to choose other data to go with this is that I would transcribe another conversation with an older child to see how the child’s language and the adult’s language and techniques differ. I could also use a child of the same age but from a different place or someone who may be at a different stage of learning, they could be more advanced or less advanced as the child included in this data. Depending on their age I would call this investigation ‘a conversation with an almost ….. year old’.

After studying the reliable/comparable and ethical data factors I now know that this type of investigation would not be suitable. This is because it would not be reliable data as I only have one form of data, I do not have a transcript of data from another child of the same age as the one included in my analysis. Also, not everything in the transcript is clear there are many indistinct factors of the child’s language which may not be the case for all children of similar or different ages. If I was to complete this investigation it would not work as there is more than one variable in the data. The comparison would be much broader than one of a difference in gender. There would be a difference in age, therefore a difference in language development. This is a huge variable and would not work very well when investigating the data. The ethical issues with the choice of data I used is that the children are under 16 and I would therefore need their parents’ permission to use this data in my investigation.