Discourse Patterns in First Language Use at Hcme and Second Language Learning at School: an Ethnographic Approach



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5.2 Participants, Topic and Purpose of Interaction

5.2.1 Hone Conversations

As measured by number of utterances, children at hone talk slightly nore
than adults, but, considering also the distribution of turns, the balance
is even.

Table 5.1


see also Annex 5.1

Identity of Speakers in Conversational Sequences

Speaker

Io. of Utterances

%

Adult to Child

1475χ

45.4χ

3090

95.1

Child to Adult

1615z

49.7 7

Child to Child

52

1.6

Unidentified addressee

93

2.9

Unidentified speaker

16

.4

Total Mo. of Utterances

in CS    3251

100.0

Most of the Conversational Sequences are between 1 child and 1 adult; few
involve other children and sone involve children and adults, <see Table
5.2 in the following page). In nost cases, other nenbers of the fanily or
neighbours are present but do not Join in the talk: in fact, 'unsolicited
contributions by other speakers' are quite rare (1=80, 2.5% of all
utterances - see Annex 5.6), nostly by children who intervened to back up



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