Today our topic of discussion is – Overview of research
Overview of research
The next chapter of my dissertation, Chapter 2, ‘Literature Review’, I situate the theoretical foundation and premises of my work ‘the usage-based approach’ to language acquisition. Following this,
I set up discussion of the child meaning acquisition for communication and interaction in Bengali perspective in an attempt to highlight how they turn up in the overall language growth of a child and look at how the selected approach could guide such an understanding.
This chapter ends with a statement of my main research questions that guide my study.
I want to leave room also for inquiring the expertise of the existing scholars and their research from a significant first language acquisition perspective.
In chapter 3, ‘Methodology”, I discuss the philosophy and the process of my field study that I conducted over 4 years in Dhaka, Bangladesh in details to fit into my research questions. In this part I talk about my beliefs of solidarity in my methodology and my interactions and the associations with the research participants who shaped and informed my study, especially in terms of data collection, analyses and evaluation.
Chapter 4, ‘Findings’, shares my research findings with co-scripting the observation data of the research participants, as the data arrived from in depth observations and conversations with them. The findings speak to the questions I shared in Chapter 2.
The findings shed lights on the participants’ constructions of meaning, performance in communications and the role of environmental and human input for successful meaning acquisition. It will make sense to characterize the acquisition of a domain with a reasonably clear concept of what the structure of the domain is, which is the purpose and outcome of the acquisition process.
Chapter 5, ‘Discussion’, relates my findings from chapter 4 with the theoretical and methodological underpinnings of my assignment. Here I talk about how surrounding
environmental input plays critical role in understanding, defining and guiding the language experiences of the cultural insiders of this research project. Moreover, child language categorization as a vital part of meaning making in the form of multi unit utterances will be presented too. Finally,
I will clarify the relation and influence of lexical learning and semantic acquisition on child meaning acquisition with the help of the analyzed data. Before explaining the results in depth, we call on the semantic information to describe what we know regarding children’s language-use objectives.
This will allow the reader to evaluate how the current language acquisition research guides us in sorting out the acquisition process and where there are gaps in our knowledge.
The usage based approach is extended to understand the role of structuring schemas in language acquisition and interactions between children and others in their natural language environment.
It also guide us to broaden the scope of observing and analyzing data collected from language used in other settings different from their everyday one too, like pre-schools, neighbour’s house or play grounds etc.
Chapter 6, ‘The Conclusion’ is the final chapter of my dissertation. Following the above discussions, this chapter will present a quick look of the future possibilities that resulted from this research. Limitations that could not be completely overcome will also be highlighted. Finally, I summed up with an overall summary of the research.
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