THE STRUCTURE OF CONVERSATIONS WITH 6- TO 10-YEAR-OLD DEAF CHILDREN

Content Provider	Scilit
Author	Wood, D. J. Wood, H. A. Griffiths, A. J. Howarth, S. P. Howarth, C. I.
Copyright Year	1982
Description	Journal: Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry In stage 1 classroom conversations between sixteen teachers and their pre-lingually deaf children were videotaped and analysed to examine both the styles used by teachers in controlling conversation and the functions pursued in dialogue. In stage 2 a sub-sample of four teachers with twenty children of known hearing losses and non-verbal intelligence was analysed in greater detail to examine relationships between these factors, teaching styles and the child's performance in dialogue. The analyses show that deaf children respond in a similar fashion to young hearing children in the way they react to different styles of teacher talk; that teachers differ in the functions they pursue in conversation; and that functions change as a consequence of the child's hearing loss but not mental age. The implications of the findings for linguistic development in pre-lingually deaf children are explored.
Related Links	http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1469-7610.1982.tb00074.x/pdf
Ending Page	308
Page Count	14
Starting Page	295
ISSN	00219630
e-ISSN	14697610
DOI	10.1111/j.1469-7610.1982.tb00074.x
Journal	Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
Issue Number	3
Volume Number	23
Language	English
Publisher	Wiley-Blackwell
Publisher Date	1982-07-01
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Journal: Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Developmental and Educational Psychology Psychiatry and Mental Health Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health