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A Study on Speech Accommodation of Bilingual Preschoolers around Nugegoda Area

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dc.contributor.author Weerarathna, A.M.P.H.
dc.date.accessioned 2020-11-04T07:30:46Z
dc.date.available 2020-11-04T07:30:46Z
dc.date.issued 2019
dc.identifier.citation Weerarathna, A.M.P.H. (2019). A Study on Speech Accommodation of Bilingual Preschoolers around Nugegoda Area, Proceedings of the Undergraduate Research Symposium (HUG 2019), Department of English Language Teaching, Faculty of Humanities, University of Kelaniya. Sri Lanka, P.124 en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://repository.kln.ac.lk/handle/123456789/21501
dc.description.abstract In linguistics, accommodation is the process by which participants in a conversation adjust their accent, diction, or other aspects of language according to the speech style of the other participant. It is used to be called linguistic accommodation, speech accommodation, and communication accommodation. Thus, the study attempts to investigate the speech accommodation of bilingual preschoolers around Nugegoda area which is evident that there is less research conducted on this area in the Sri Lankan context. Moreover, the study will investigate the process of speech accommodation of the bilingual preschoolers around Nugegoda area and relevant to speech accommodation, clarifies the language switching operation or any other action they apply with their communication competence. The sample is randomly selected 6 preschoolers of 3-5 years old; 3 random preschoolers from each preschool were chosen. Furthermore, a qualitative data collection method through naturalistic observation on bilingual preschoolers with audio recordings is used in the study. Naturalistic observation with audio recordings will be done in 6 days with 2 other supporters to the researcher. 3 sessions of each preschooler will be observed; peer- peer communication, teacher- preschooler communication and stranger- preschooler. The recorded sessions will be transcribed and analyzed in qualitative in-depth analysis through data driven coding. As the research is in process, up to now 3 preschoolers were observed in 3 sessions mentioned before. Considerably, current findings show there‟s a natural combination in between the preschooler and teacher as well as preschooler and peer, but, there‟s a comparison in the communication process of stranger and preschooler. en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher Proceedings of the Undergraduate Research Symposium (HUG 2019), Department of English Language Teaching, Faculty of Humanities, University of Kelaniya. Sri Lanka en_US
dc.subject Speech Accommodation, bilingualism, language switching en_US
dc.title A Study on Speech Accommodation of Bilingual Preschoolers around Nugegoda Area en_US
dc.type Article en_US


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