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2 - Sequences

from Part I - Talk as Social Action

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 June 2022

By
Mardi Kidwell
Edited by
Amelia Church  and
Amanda Bateman
Amelia Church
Affiliation:
University of Melbourne
Amanda Bateman
Affiliation:
Swansea University
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Summary

This chapter shows how very young children’s intentions in interaction are made visible in sequences of action through a very common sort of child-initiated exchange, one that is founded on their emerging joint attention capacities: object presentations. These exchanges, which consist at minimum of two turns – an initiating action by the child and a response by the adult – can be oriented to by adults and extended in ways that facilitate child learning.

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sequences of actionconversation analysisjoint attentionscaffolding
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Talking with Children
A Handbook of Interaction in Early Childhood Education
 , pp. 38 - 54
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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