I= Interviewer (LCRT 5810)

A= Language learner
B= Another student in class

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Pragmatics
SOCIAL SAMPLE

(1) I: Okay, so I’m gonna ask you some questions, ok? And I just want you to try
your best. So what do you think language is?
(2) A: Language?
(3) I: Yeah, language. What is language?
(4) A: Spanish?
(5) I: Yeah, Spanish.
(6) I: So can you guys tell me about your weekends?
(7) A: I went to Carla’s!
(8) B: I played my game.
(9) A: I went to Carla’s yesterday. And I went to Carla’s yesterday and also,
(10)I...there was pizza there and I ate it. And I ate pizza!
(11)I: You ate pizza?
(12)A: Yeah.
(13)I: What do you guys like on your pizza?
(14)A: I like pepperoni and ch-cheese. Pepperoni and cheese. Pepperoni too.
(15)It could be hot sauce or just cheese.
(16)B: I don’t like nothing.
(17)A: Nothing? That’s cheese. Hey you guys read this! Cop cow and
(18)mine is break dancing. There’s a mystery cow, look. Hey B, look,
(19)mine has a mysteries.
(20)I: What do you guys think you want to be when you grow up?
(21)A: I wanna be baseball player! But not a cop. So I’m just a baseball
(22)player. Let’s pretend we be playing baseball! Guys! Let’s play pretend
(23)Dodgers. Sometimes we…do dat outside, Ms. V.
(24)If you grow up…Maybe he wants to be a baseball player too? B wants to
(25)be a cop.
(26)I: What is your favorite animal?
(27)A: I like a T-Rex! I like a lion! The King Lion. El Rey! I like the regular
(28)lions, with like no fur like around. They’re in...they live in Africa, and
(29)they eat animals just like the dinosaurs. Dinosaurs?? They’re
(30)already dead, they turned to bones. Maybe?
(31)I: Do you think dinosaurs are scary? I would be so scared of them!
(32)A: No, they’re not so scary! But they’re just bones now. They turned
(33)to bones. Is that avocado? It’s agucate in Spanish. I don’t like
(34)agucate. Know what? Know that I have oranges just like that. You can
(35)eat the agucate with chips! That’s what I saw Ms. Van Poperin do.
(36)Right now. And you can put it on like vegetables, or something? But
(37)I don’t eat it, I don’t like it. I don’t. It’s so nasty. Do you like cats or
(38)uhh…d-d-dogs? The dogs win.
(39)I: What is your favorite animal? Oh my gosh, I just asked that.
(40)B: I love all the animals.
(41)A: Me too! Me too!
(42)I: Oh my.
(43)A: Is our class going to go outside?
(44)I: Yep.
(45)A: Oh, that means we have enough time to eat.
(46)I: What do you like to do best outside on the playground?
(47)A: I like playing outside. I used to play hide and seek.
(48)B: Look, she got an apple.
(49)A: Apples are healthy.
(50)I: Do you guys ever play soccer?
(51)B: A little bit!
(52)A: Uh huh. I want more nachos!
(53)I: What are these?
(54)A: Uh, pineapple.
(55)B: Pineabble?
(56)A: That’s what I just said! Okay??
(57)I: We’re having a pretty good day today.
(58)A: Ms. V, when are we going to dump all the marbles in the cup?
(59)B: Where?
(60)A: I know! The bucket, the bucket, it’s um, we put it in here for our party.
(61)Yeah..
(62)I: A figured it out.
(63)A: We’re going to put them in the bucket. And now when the cup is full,
(64)we get our compament party. And it has to be up to here. This is our new
(65)compament jar.
(66)I: Yep, this is our new compliment jar.
(67)A: That’s what I just said. Okay? Is that how you really eat like that? Wow,
(68)you eat really crazy. You shouldn’t do it like dat, like dat!
(69)I: Why? He’s just eating his orange.
(70)A: Yeah, but…I just dropped it.. Ms. V! My teeth are going to fall down and
(71)grow in. This one in the front I just lost, lost it. These two are going to
(72)drop down from the top, so I have to eat on this side and this side. But
(73)not right there no more.
(74)I: What do you do to be a good big brother?
(75)A: My sister little is like right here cuz she’s 4 years old. A long time
(76)ago I was five. The stuffed animal of my sister is like the one I had. He
(77)was like Buzz Lightyear. Ms. Van Poperin, did you know that there’s a
(78)ghost in Mexico? I got a white, a white house. But I always remember the
(79)number. 1788 I think. And like it’s also made out of brick. I haveta gotta
(80)go to the bathroom.
(81)I: And what about the roads? Do you know the roads?
(82)A: Mmm, mmm my road for school it’s just a right and uh turning. That’s
(83)where I get home and back to school.
 (84)B: I live close too.
(85)I: So you guys live close to school.
(86)B: Yeah.
(87)A: But I live like closer to the school. I’m a little close pecause I live right
(88)there. I’m more closer to school.
(89)I: Did you wash your hands?
(90)A: I didn’t hear no wahdur. Hez lyin.
(91)B: Yes! I did!
(92)A: No. But I didn’t hear no water.
(93)I: Okay, he did.
(94)A: Cuz I didn’t hear no water in der dough.
(95)I: Okay, I will save this for skillbuilders.
(96)A: No, no when are class is here that just means we throw this stuff...way.
(97)I think.
(98)I: [Sneeze]
(99)A: Bless you, bless you.
(100)I: Okay, so if you guys want to go outside, you can. Or you can stay in here
(101)and play a little bit.
(102)A: I wanna stay in here for little while!
(103)B: Me too!
(104)I: Do we have something in our classroom you guys want to play with?
(105)A: Dinosaur puzzle! Hey guys, let’s do that dinosaur puzzle!
(106)I: First you gotta finish your food though. Eat two more pieces of fruit!
(107)A: You wan me, wan me. How man, how much…
(108)I: Two more bites of fruit.
(109)A: Bites. You mean like one fer one and then anoder one?

ACADEMIC SAMPLE

(110)I: Okay, so I noticed how you did that in your head. Can you tell me how?
(111)A: How’d I do wha?
(112)I: You figured out that math without using your fingers or our cubes. Can you
show what you had in your brain helping you?
(113)I saw one of ar doubles. I knowed dree and dree is six, and then I countdid on
seven, eight, nine. That’s how I knowed there were nine without my fingers or
nothing.
(114)Wow, nice thinking. So I’m gonna show you another one. You ready?
(115)Mmmm! I know! I know!
(116)Okay, tell me how many you saw.
(117)I dink it was 11. But...Yeah...No, it was ten! It was ten! I knowed it.
(118)It was 10! Tell me your math thinking now?
(119)I saw anoder double, becuz I know all my doubles now! I practice
(120)them and learned them...and eight and eight, noo, waid. I know four
(121)and four makes eight and then I countdid one and one mo and I saw
(122)that it makes 10!
(123)Okay! Way to go mathematician A! Here’s another one for you.
(124) Okay. I seeee seven! Because I saw dree and dree makes six and then countdid
one more and that makes seven!