Today our topic of discussion is – Research questions.
Research questions
So it is in the formation that I locate this study of the Bengali first language acquiring children using their natural environment and surrounding settings. I want my research to be partially participatory in nature and observe the creativity of the young language learners which will help me understand,
co-construct and co-script their lived experiences and construction of meaning expressions. The usage based approach allows me to do that by being reflexive of my own agendas, and ‘expertise in the field of academia,
My goal is to be a part of the Bengali spoken children’s journey and in the process build a dialogical engagement between the participants and me. So I have designed the following three research questions that would allow me to listen, understand and co-construct the context of semantic acquisition for the research community. The first question would allow me to understand the
importance of immediate environmental input on the ongoing process of a child’s meaning acquisition course, and in turn support me to understand how these constructions guide their language development progressions.
The second question would shed light on language categorization as a vital issue in the process of meaning making or how they enact their cognitive ability to categorize language into meaningful wholes. Finally, the third question would help to identify the relationship of lexical learning with meaning acquisition as fundamental to a child’s language development process.
Accordingly, the three questions guiding this research are:
RQ.1: What is the role of surrounding environmental input on children’s meaning acquisition?
RQ 2: How does categorization influence children’s meaning acquisition?
RQ 3: What is the relation between semantic acquisition and lexical learning in first language acquisition?
In the following chapter I provide a navigation map of how I conducted the study to
engage with these research questions.
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