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The video footage used was an episode of the children’s television programme – the Teletubbies. ... Following this will be an explanation of the term language and it’s main components, together with a summary of the course of language development. The 3 main language development theories, namely Naturist, Behaviourist and Interactionist, will be used to evaluate the video footage and it’s relevance to the target audience. The video footage provided was an episode of a children’s television programme called Teletubbies. Teletubbies was first transmitted in 1997, and was created by Anne Wood and Andy Davenport of Ragdoll Productions as a replacement for BBC’s flagship preschool programme - Playschool. ... The Teletubbies live in a brightly coloured, uncluttered land called Teletubbyland. This consists of hills, flowers, rabbits, windmills, shower attachments that act as voice trumpets giving the Teletubbies instruction and a large house where the four Teletubbies happily live together with their friend the ‘Noo Noo’ (a hoover like machine that cleans up after them). ... Each episode begins with a large yellow sun containing a baby’s face (known as the ‘Babysun’) rising alongside the soft slow voice of a narrator who introduces the Teletubbies, who in turn respond with their now famous “Eh-ho” greeting. The format of each episode tends to follow the same structure and after the initial greeting the Teletubbies then sing, dance and play together. This is followed by a film clip which when it has ended is immediately repeated after prompting from the four Teletubbies with choruses of “again and again”. ... The Teletubbies in turn respond, or repeat the word, in a child like manner after a short pause, together with their expression of excitement (exaggerated arm movements, leg kicking and jumping around), for example “Tubbycustard knee”. Each episode ends with the narrator and the Teletubbies saying “goodbye”, followed by the ‘Babysun’ setting in the sky. ... This point is emphasised by Andy Davenport who says “Teletubbies is aimed at children at critical stages of language development, so the programme concentrates on music, rhythms, temporal and spatial relations, as well as children talking in their own words about their experiences” (www. ... uk) Andy Davenport, who himself has a background in speech science, describes the Teletubby language as “being closely modelled around the latest theories of speech that identify repetition, a sing song voice and social interaction as the building blocks for language, as well as having it’s own grammatical structure that makes sense to children and the repetition makes them feel secure” ( http://news. ... Teletubbies has created a great deal of interest resulting in its syndication to 80 countries in 35 different languages. ... Before looking at how the Teletubbies stands up against the theories of language development it is necessary to take a closer look at language itself. What is language? Plotnik (1999) describes language as “a form of communication in which we learn how to use complex rules to form and manipulate symbols (words or gestures) that are to generate an endless number of meaningful sentences”. |
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