Conversational repair strategies in 3 and 5 year old normal Persian-speaking children in Ahwaz, Iran
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Zahra Ghayoumi Anaraki
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Leila Ghasisin
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Behrooz Mahmoodi Bakhtiari
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Ali Fallah
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Fatemeh Salehi
,
Elham Parishan
Abstract
Background and Aim: The ability of conversational repair is a subset of pragmatic language. When the listener does not understand the speaker’s intention, and the speaker cannot find a way of repairing the conversation to make his/her massage clear, communication will fail. This study aims to examine and compare the conversational repair skill in two groups of three and five year old children, to determine different conversational repair strategies and compare these skills among these groups.
Methods: One hundred and twenty Persian speaking children of three and five years of Ahwaz, Iran, were selected. The study tools were two series of pictures. During the retelling of the pictures the examiner created a situation to elicit a conversational repair strategy. Percentages of the usage of different kinds of conversational repair in each group were calculated and compared using student’s ttest.
Results: The usage of repetition and inappropriate response is decreased in the group of five year olds compared to the three year olds, but cue-repair and repetition method is increased. The addition method has remained relatively constant. There was a significant difference between average percentage of using repetition (p=0.04) and cue-repair (p=0.001) of the two groups. The percentage of application of repetition method in three year olds and cue-term method in five year olds were significantly higher than other conversational repair strategies.
Conclusion: With the increase in age and development of language skills the probability of using more complex and difficult strategies, like the cue-repair method, increases.
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| Issue | Vol 22 No 1 (2013) | |
| Section | Research Article(s) | |
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| Pragmatic conversational repair repetition cue-repair Persian-speaking child | ||
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