Language Sampling
This interactive Power Point can be used as guide in beginning your Language Sampling
Click on the speaker above and you will hear a recoding I have made to narrate the Power Point
presentation.
Step 1- transcription
• Create a video or audio tape of a preschool child engaged in a conversation.
• Transcribe the dialogue between the child and any other participants.
• Use a numbering system to keep track of the number of utterances the child makes.
• Use a color coding system to keep track of who is speaking when.
Example of Transcription
• Watch the video of Katie talking about Ballyations again and look at the sample transcription of her speech.
• Notice the numbering and color coding system used to keep track of her speech.
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDP05CYgAlw&feature=related(right click and click open hyperlink
• Count the number of morphemes in each utterance. Keep in mind the information from p. 129 in your textbook about morphemes as a guide. – For this sampling, I only transcribed 12 child utterances.
For your Language Sampling, use the rubric as your guide for number of utterances per child.
• Next use the handout found in week 3 to calculate the Mean Length Utterance of this speech chart. Remember to total the number of morphemes an divide by the number of utterances in a sampling.– Spoiler alert- My morpheme calculations are on a second chart
after the first one and my MLU results are on the slide after the two charts.
1 KatieI’m going to tell you about the ballyations
Mom You’re going to talk about what?
2 Katie Ballyations
3 Katie I’m going to tell you about the ballyations.
Mom Ok
4 Katie 1 little ballyatin has to walk and he doesn’t have a leash.
Mom Laughing
Mom Good one
5 Katie 2 little puppies, nooooooo
Mom No?
6 Katie No, these are puppies
Mom Oh, those are puppies?
7 Katie And hese are ballyations
Mom Dalmations
8 Katie See, puppies
Mom Unh huh
9 Katie And ballyations
Mom Puppies and dalmations
10 Katie No, ballyations
Mom Oh, ballyations
11 Katie Hey, uh I got her.
Mom Did you scare the cat?
12 Katie Yeah and she went away
1 KatieI’m going to tell you about the ballyations
11
Mom You’re going to talk about what?
2 Katie Ballyations 2
3 Katie I’m going to tell you about the ballyations. 11
Mom Ok
4 Katie 1 little ballyatin has to walk and he doesn’t have a leash. 13
Mom Laughing
Mom Good one
5 Katie 2 little puppies, nooooooo 5
Mom No?
6 Katie No, these are puppies 5
Mom Oh, those are puppies?
7 Katie And these are ballyations 5
Mom Dalmations
8 Katie See, puppies 3
Mom Unh huh
9 Katie And ballyations 3
Mom Puppies and dalmations
10 Katie No, ballyations 3
Mom Oh, ballyations
11 Katie Hey, uh I got her. 4
Mom Did you scare the cat?
12 Katie Yeah and she went away 5
• Total # of morphemes is 70. 70/12= 5.8• So the MLU calculation is 5.8• Based on your readings of Brown’s
stages- at what stage would Katie fall based only on MLU?
• Using the following handout about functions of language, which of the 7 functions does Katie exhibit during her conversation with her mother?
• Spoiler Alert• The answers as I saw them are found on
the page after the functions handout
Functions of LanguageSee p. 139 Table 4.8
• Instrumental- used to satisfy a need– “Doggie, Mommy.”
• Regulatory- used to control other’s behavior– “No go night night.”
• Interactive- used to get along with others– “Play with me.”
• Personal- used to tell about one’s self– “I big boy now.”
• Heuristic- used to learn about things– “Where is the sun?”
• Imaginative- used to pretend or make believe– “I’m a doggie, roof, roof.”
• Informative- used to inform others– “This card goes with that card.”
Katie’s Language Functions
• Katie’s MLU stage would be in the Stage 5• 11 of Katie’s utterances centered around giving
information to her mother. 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, , 9, 10, 11, 12.• 4 utterances center around make believe- 4, 5,6,7• 1 utterance is to control the behaviors of others- the cat
with Hey.• She is not merely expressing needs or wants. This child
is playing with her mother in an imaginative way • Her functions of language use are beyond that of a child
in stage 2 or early stage 3.
TaaaDaa
• Transcribe, color code, number and count the conversation
• Calculate MLU• Identify functions of
language used using chart in Power Point or in text.
• Compare and question
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