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THE EFFECTS OF PRACTICE NARRATIVES IN INTERVIEWS WITH AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINAL CHILDREN
G E M M A H A M I LT O N ( P H D C A N D I DAT E )
D R. S O N JA B R U B AC H E R
PROF. MART INE POWELL
PRACTICE NARRATIVES
Tell me something you’ve done? Tell me something you like to do? Tell me about the last time…
1. Rapport-building
2. Retrieving & reporting episodic memories
3. Practice responding to open-ended questions (e.g., “tell me more about that?”)
INTERACTION DIFFERENCES
Interaction Styles Aboriginal-Australian Culture
Anglo-Australian Culture
English Aboriginal English= prevalent language
Standard Australian English = first language
Discourse Responses = minimal, brief, unelaborated (Sharifian, 2001)
Responses = varied depending on prompts
Relationship-building Questions = intrusive
Questions = polite
WHAT ARE THE EFFECTS OF A PRACTICE
NARRATIVE ON THE INFORMATIVNESS AND
ACCURACY OF ABORIGINAL CHILDREN’S
ACCOUNTS?
Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) code of ethics for working with Indigenous Australians.
Practice Narrative (33)
No Practice Narrative (31)
Age (years) 6-15 years M = 9.03, SD = 1.88
M = 9.45, SD = 1.98
Gender Female 17 13
Male 16 18
Participants (N=64)
DEAKIN ACTIVITIES 30-minute staged event
• Puppet
• Exercising (jumping)
• Listening to a story
• Lying down for a rest
• Getting refreshed (wet wipes)
• Receiving a prize (sticker)
INTERVIEW STRUCTURE
• Introduction• Ground rules• Practice Narrative (or not)• Initiate substantive phase • Open-ended questioning
INFORMATIVENESS: Target details, word counts
ACCURACY: Errors about the event
Interviews conducted
& recorded
Interviews transcribed & coded
Interviews collated & analysed
RESULTS: PRACTICE NARRATIVES
1.Practice narratives ≠ more accurate and informative accounts
2.Verbosity during practice narrative = more words and target details during substantive phase
EFFECTS OF GENDER
0
1
2
3
4
5
Series10
50
100
150
200
Girls Boys
0
0.5
1
1.5
2
Girls Boys
Target Details
Word Counts
Errors
EFFECTS OF AGE
• Target details: no significant age effects
• Word count: no significant age effects
• Errors: no significant age effects
CONCLUSIONS
• Aboriginal children need to be interviewed according to the best possible and most appropriate techniques
• Include practice narratives in investigative interviews with all Aboriginal children in the knowledge that it will at least benefit those who are responsive during narrative training
• Future research needed to improve how practice narratives are conducted with all Aboriginal children, especially less talkative children
THANK YOU! QUESTIONS?
Gemma Hamilton
Student representative iIIRG
PhD candidate and sessional academic
Deakin University
Phone: 0425 785 167
