English language investigation:
Piagets theory:
'according to Piaget, children don't talk about a subject until they are ready to understand it'


I don't want to make my investigation have any ethological factors and therefore i'm not going to force him to play with anything he wouldn't normally play with to make it reliable but also I want to try and encourage him to play with things he doesn't play with as much as other things to see how he reacts to talking about things he isn't to confident with talking about.


-record my brother talking to my mum when his playing with his toys
-write out a transcript of when he talks about what he is playing with
-get him to play with different things, some of which he wont know what it is and see what he has to say about it.
-see how my mum responds to what he says when he doesn't know what he's talking about.
-see weather he stops talking all together or weather he will ask questions to learn about the subject or just relate it to things he already knows about that are in a similar lexical field.