ZACH AND THE HEALING ROBOT TRANSCRIPT

1. His speech often seems less fluent - can you suggest some contextual reasons why? (WRITTEN IN BLUE) 
2. Who sets the agenda in the first and second conversations? How does this affect the amount and quality of talk? (WRITTEN IN GREEN)
3. Look at the vocabulary, sentence types and MLUs in the two transcripts - what development can you see over the course of the 13 months? (WRITTEN IN PURPLE)
4. What non-standard uses appear? What alternative interpretations could you offer as to why? (WRITTEN IN PINK)
5. How reliable is the data when drawing any kind of conclusions? (WRITTEN IN RED)

(http://hallaslanguageblog.blogspot.co.uk/2016/09/work-in-my-absence-27916.html)