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

2.5 Ethnography of communication

1. Cross-cultural variation in adult-child interaction 58

2. Dyadic interaction and adults' input 59

3. Children as conversational partners 61

4. Facilitating structures of adults' talk 63

5. Adult-child Question and Reply patterns 64

The Setting

3.1 The linguistic situation in Xozamhlque

1. African languages and Portuguese 66

2. Language policies of colonial Portugal 71

3. Language during the war and after Independence 73

3.2 Education in Mozambique

1. Colonial education 77

2. The educational policy of FEE.LI.MO. 79

3. Primary education and its Teachers 83

3.3 Language learning in the First Grade 86

3.4 The IJMXE. Project 90

The Method

4.1 Overview 95

4.2 Problems in naturalistic research

1. Maturalistic methods 96

2. Collection and processing of data 98

4.3 The subset of data

1. From Interaction to adult-child conversations 101

2. The analysis of adult-child conversational sequences 103

4.4 The coding system

1. Definitions 105

2. The Codebook 108

Examples of coded Conversational Sequences 116

4.5 From home data to educational practice

1. Home conversations and classroom interaction 121

2. First and second language acquisition 126