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MODIFICATION IN LANGUAGE STRUCTURE OF 7-8 YEAR-OLD RURAL CHILDREN, IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE AGE OF THE LISTENER

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Title MODIFICATION IN LANGUAGE STRUCTURE OF 7-8 YEAR-OLD RURAL CHILDREN, IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE AGE OF THE LISTENER
 
Creator SADGUNA DEVI, A
 
Contributor RAYULU, T.R
 
Subject MODIFICATION, LANGUAGE, STRUCTURE, RURAL, CHILDREN, ACCORDANCE, AGE, LISTENER
 
Description Little is known about the children's knowledge
and use of pragmatic rules that govern what a speaker
says and how he says it in different communicative
situations. The child in order to use pragmatic rules,
first must be able to notice the relevant characteristics
of his listener and of the situatiort. He must
then be able to adjust what he says and how he says it
on the basis of this information. There is a growing
evidence that even young children adjrist the speech
they address to different listener's and seem, therefore,
to be using pragmatic rules in their communicative
interactions.
Lack of information in this field, in Indian
context, suggests the need for studies in which
listener and situational characteristics are either
carefully noted or experimentally manipulated as independent
variables. In the present study, the effect of
listener's age on the language structure of children
was studied. The study was done in regional language
(Telugu) in rural area.
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The study was conducted in two selected
villages of Maheswaram. mandal, namely, Thukkuguda and
Mankal. Sample comprised of 30, 7 - 8 year old children,
including 15 from each village. It was decided
to study children in a structured situation using story
narration as the method of communication between the
child and the listener. Based on the set criteria, the
story of 'The Noble Cow was chosen and
flash cards were prepared.
Children were told the story and were asked to
narrate the same to three different listeners, namely,
an adult, a peer and a younger child. The narrations
were audio-taped and later transcribed.
Variables measured were number of, total sentences,
simple sentences, complex sentences, incomplete
utterances (IU), nouns, verbs, sandhi words, and units
retold. Mean Length of Sentence (MLS) and use of
reported speech were also studied.
The data was analysed using analysis of
variance, to test the difference in language structure
of children in accordance with the age of the listerner.
The study revealed that age of the listener
did not influence the language structure of children.
It was observed that children produced similarly structured
stories to all the three listeners of different
ag·es groups .
MLS of children was found to be 5.0. Children
reduced the story by two-thirds including equal number
of simple and complex sentences. Half of the children
studied used IU. Though not significant, slightly more
number of verbs than nouns were used by children.
Around one-tenth of total number of words used, were
sandhi words. Story reproduction was found to be good
among children with few exceptions. Children employed
direct reporting rather inadequately and ineffectively.
The impoverished linguistic environment in
which the children lived might have caused their present
status which calls for stimulation and enrichment.
 
Date 2016-08-20T10:30:56Z
2016-08-20T10:30:56Z
1990
 
Type Thesis
 
Identifier http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/73108
 
Language en
 
Relation D3451;
 
Format application/pdf
 
Publisher ACHARYA N.G. RANGA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY, RAJENDRANAGAR, HYDERABAD.