Meeting with Jill

Today I had a meeting with Jill to discuss and hopefully decide upon a topic for my coursework so I can get started. However, the meeting brought up more issues and questions than it solved so at the moment I still don't have a clarified title and plan! My three ideas were as follows:

• Explore and compare the language of a 2yr old and a 4yr old. (For my GCSE Child Development I studied a 2yr olds language development and I thought I could revisit her and recreate the project.)
• When do gender differences appear in children's language? (I'm not really that interested in gender - I would rather focus on child language acquisition)
• How do parents read to children? (I thought I could explore how the tone, pitch and pace of voice changes when reading to children of different ages)

Then we came up with another idea:

• To what extent are language stage theories true? (For this I would study the development of 3 boys aged 1-3)

However due to the fact I don't really know the children or their parents that well and I have a weekend job it would be very difficult for us to meet up.
   Lots more ideas were thrown about but none really made me think "yeah, I'm really interested in that." So... I will be meeting with Jill again this afternoon to hopefully sort it out and begin an action plan!