Paper 3 section b
In this extract, it features a mother and her five year old daughter Raina. Raina is in the concrete operational stage which means her thinking is characterized by logical operations like conversation, reversibility or classification which allows logical reasoning. At this age, Raina should be able to form complete sentences with some logic. Throughout the extract, Raina shows her thinking and reasoning while going on the trail with her mother. Raina's mother is displaying caretaker speech. She simplifies her sentences to use simpler words that her five year old would understand so they can hold a conversation. Riana’s mother uses simplified phrases like “no(.) too long grass in there”. Simple phrases like this are more comprehensible for Raina and enable her to have a conversation with her mom that she can understand. Raina’s mother also uses different fluctuation and intonation in her voice which tells Raina what she should pay attention to. Raina picks up on the intonatio...