EML302 Assessment One: Oral Language Analysis and Newsletter

EML302 ASSESSMENT ONE
EML302 Assessment One
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Subject Code & Title: EML302 – Investigation: Literacy
Assignment Title: Oral Language Analysis and Newsletter
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EML302 ASSESSMENT ONE
Contextual information:
MJ is a 3 years old kid who loves to play and talk. She always try to make well
constructed sentence to express her thoughts and feelings into her words. She likes to tell
story too. In this paper the oral language development of MJ will be discussed with two
supported oral language sample of her. The first oral language sample has been recorded in
her home while she was talking with me. In this conversation, she express her feelings about
her new friend circle that she made at playground. In this sample MJ was asked repeatedly
about her feelings and experience on her new friends to maintain a consistent flow of the
conversation. In another oral language sample, MJ was telling a story that she heard from her
elder brother who is 5 years elder than her.
The second sample has been recorded in her kindergarten school when she was
talking with her friends. MJ was completely involved in an immersive conversation with full
of emotion and excitements during the story telling in front of her friends. The story that she
told is seemed very interesting and exciting to her. It is also obvious that, her elder brother
somewhere influenced the expression pattern of her story telling. The oral language sample of
MJ has been presented in transcript format in the appendix of this paper. The representations
have been subdivided into Halliday's three key features namely field, tenor and mode.
Language analysis:
Development of oral language
As per the theory of developmental milestone, age of 3 years is a significant stage for
oral language development where the children try to interpret the words from other from their
own perspectives. MJ is in a specific developmental stage where the human brain develops
and gets mature rapidly. It is the earlier and the most intensive moment of developing oral
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language and speaking capability (Bonk & King, 2012). With this regards, MJ always try to
use her potential intellect to communicate with others. It helps her to develop the quality of
speaking and learning capability.
The major components of the oral language and speaking ability is Grammar,
Vocabulary, pronunciation and fluency. All these components work harmonically to develop
a proper sentence or a proper conversation. MJ is a 3 years old girl. In this age most of the
children experience pronunciation difficulty. Apart from that, they usually have difficulties in
finding appropriate word to express a particular factor. This problems defines the lack of
vocabulary issues. In case of MJ, these two components of speaking language namely
Grammar and Vocabulary have been well maintained and utilised throughout her
conversations in both situations. However, she has negligible amount of grammar issues,
which is very common at her age. A child of this age always try to focus on the core factors
of a sentence rather than focusing on the construction of the sentence (Ellis & Beattie, 2017).
Therefore, sometimes the sentence of MJ was lacking proper configuration. MJ pronounce
very well. She speaks more clear way than any other girl of her age. The reason behind this is
her extremely talkative attitude that allows her to repeat many words. These repetitions help
her to enhance her pronunciation capacity.
According to Early Years Learning Framework, Outcome 5, children are effective
communicator. Children use multiple modes and methods to communicate and express their
emotions or feelings. At the age of 3, most of children prefer expressing a sentence through
the facial expression and hand gesture. That allow the listener to understand the factor that
the children try to say. Being a child of 3 years old MJ also used various hand gestures and
facial expression throughout the both situation of communication. At the same time the
expression patterns were highly influenced by the expressions and gestures used by her
family members, especial by her brother. It is another very common factor in this age.
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