Talking about past and future events between children.A study with 4-year-old children from urban-marginalized populations in Argentina

ALAM F.; ROSEMBERG, C.R.; STEIN, A.; RAMIREZ, L.

Lyon

Congreso; IASCL 2017; 2017

IASCL

This study aims to analyze past and future accounts that 4-year-old children from marginalized urban populations in Argentina produced in interaction with an older child and individually. The theoretical perspective (Nelson, 2007) assumes that discourse development involves interaction with discourse models provided by cultural partners. Within this perspective, studies have shown differences between future and past accounts produced by children in adult?child interaction (Hudson, 2002).The data consists of 80 accounts -40 past accounts and 40 future accounts- produced by 20 4-year-old children in two conditions: interaction with a 12-year-old child and individually. The data was video-recorded. Through a qualitative analysis we identified 3 types of sequences employed by the 4 year old children in the construction of the accounts: 1) temporally ordered sequences; 2) descriptive sequences ; 3) enumerative sequences. A repeated measures ANOVA was carried out. Then a conversational analysis of the interactions was carried out. Results showed interaction effects between the type of account and the condition regarding the use of temporally ordered sequences (F(1,38)=31.76, p