Summary of the Transcript on Zachy (2;4) drawing a banana

During the speech, a supportive and questioning tone. This means that Zachy speaks to the parent because of the tone that the Mother has, which is of encouragement. On the first turn taken by H (Mother), they use "Darling" after saying "What?" We understand through this that she is trying to use a politeness strategy to mitigate what she is saying. This ensures that the child feels more able to answer to H as he feels comfortable that she is not being judged by his language.

Throughout the speech, H uses many open questions including "what else have we had?" This identifies how she is encouraging her son to speak and continue to speak to make longer turns. We can see that it encourages him to continue to speak on a recent topic that he has been completing previously in the day. This means that we can notice the skills of encouraging the child to continue talking as she asks questions in order to continue the speech development. Also, she uses the 1st person "plural" to show that she is encouraging him about group work and collaboration. It enables him to know that not everything is centred around the singular first person with "I".

Additionally, H uses echoing and repetition to repeat what Zachy has just said. For example: Zachy says "a banana and 3 things in the banana" and H replies with "a banana and what? 3 things?" This identifies that she is encouraging Zachy that the speech that he is saying is correct and questioning whether he knows what he is talking about. This develops his speech by allowing him to see that he is speaking correctly in areas of his speech. It will also allow him to see where he can develop in his speech and expand what he is saying.

Within H's speech, she uses praise to allow Zachy to see where he has used his language in a correct way or starts to read. H says "you are a star little man." This highlights that he has used language correctly. The use of the noun "star" has positive connotations and shows to Zachy the positivity that is used.

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