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|Abstract=Children's first school books contain a considerable amount of reported talk among characters in the stories. This is a central aspect of the characterization of these books as transitional from the conventions of oral language to the conventions of written prose, that is, as introductions to literacy. The nature of the written representation of conversation in such books has not previously been examined. This paper presents a partial analysis of this feature of beginning school readers, focussing on “question-answer sequences.We show how these representations of talk compare with naturalistic research on child-adult interaction at home and in classrooms, and we propose that the model of child-adult talk portrayed in “home” and “school” scenes in the books appears to endorse some of the conventions for participation in instructional talk, and in this respect is implicitly a source of socialization into classroom culture. At the same time, we find that the texts give child speakers far more initiative in conversation than typically obtains in classroom talk, and this is seen also to be a feature of the social constitution of the child in these texts. Thus an image of childhood which combines conversational initiative and conversational competence as a member of the classroom community is conveyed. The paper also points out possible difficulties for child readers in interpreting the talk-on-paper, arising both from textual formats and from the particular version of the child as conversationalist which the books describe.
the conventions of written prose, that is, as introductions to literacy. The
 
nature of the written representation of conversation in such books has not
 
previously been examined. This paper presents a partial analysis of this
 
feature of beginning school readers, focussing on "question-answer se-
 
quences." We show how these representations of talk compare with natu-
 
ralistic research on child-adult interaction at home and in classrooms, and
 
we propose that the model of child-adult talk portrayed in "home" and
 
"school" scenes in the books appears to endorse some of the conventions
 
for participation in instructional talk, and in this respect is implicitly a
 
source of socialization into classroom culture. At the same time, we find
 
that the texts give child speakers far more initiative in conversation than
 
typically obtains in classroom talk, and this is seen also to be a feature of the
 
social constitution of the child in these texts. Thus an image of childhood
 
which combines conversational initiative and conversational competence as
 
a member of the classroom community is conveyed. The paper also points
 
out possible difficulties for child readers in interpreting the talk-on-paper,
 
arising both from textual formats and from the particular version of the child
 
as conversationalist which the books describe.
 
 
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Baker-Freebody1986
BibType ARTICLE
Key Baker-Freebody1986
Author(s) Carolyn D. Baker, Peter Freebody
Title Representations of questioning and answering in children's first school books
Editor(s)
Tag(s) EMCA, Child-adult conversation, question-answer sequences, first school books, literacy acquisition
Publisher
Year 1986
Language
City
Month
Journal Language in Society
Volume 15
Number 4
Pages 451–483
URL Link
DOI 10.1017/S0047404500011970
ISBN
Organization
Institution
School
Type
Edition
Series
Howpublished
Book title
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Abstract

Children's first school books contain a considerable amount of reported talk among characters in the stories. This is a central aspect of the characterization of these books as transitional from the conventions of oral language to the conventions of written prose, that is, as introductions to literacy. The nature of the written representation of conversation in such books has not previously been examined. This paper presents a partial analysis of this feature of beginning school readers, focussing on “question-answer sequences.” We show how these representations of talk compare with naturalistic research on child-adult interaction at home and in classrooms, and we propose that the model of child-adult talk portrayed in “home” and “school” scenes in the books appears to endorse some of the conventions for participation in instructional talk, and in this respect is implicitly a source of socialization into classroom culture. At the same time, we find that the texts give child speakers far more initiative in conversation than typically obtains in classroom talk, and this is seen also to be a feature of the social constitution of the child in these texts. Thus an image of childhood which combines conversational initiative and conversational competence as a member of the classroom community is conveyed. The paper also points out possible difficulties for child readers in interpreting the talk-on-paper, arising both from textual formats and from the particular version of the child as conversationalist which the books describe.

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