Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 February 2009
The HCRC dialogue database consists of over 700 transcribed and coded dialogues from pairs of speakers aged from seven to fourteen. The speakers are recorded while tackling co-operative problem-solving tasks and the same pairs of speakers are recorded over two years tackling 10 different versions of our two tasks. In addition there are over 200 dialogues recorded between pairs of undergraduate speakers engaged on versions of the same tasks. Access to the database, and to its accompanying custom-built search software, is available electronically over the JANET system by contacting [email protected], from whom further information about the database and a user's guide to the database can be obtained.
This research was supported by a grant from the Economic and Social Research Council (RC00232458), and the researchers gratefully acknowledge their assistance. We thank the staff and pupils from the participating schools for their help.