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Day 3 Local knowledge: Literacies and representations

Day 3 Local knowledge: Literacies and representations. Reaction slips, Some points Can you prepare a research project without a theory? (Framework or Bed of Procrustes?) If local knowledge isn´t a methodology or an instrument how can we characterise it?

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Day 3 Local knowledge: Literacies and representations

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  1. Day 3 Local knowledge: Literacies and representations Reaction slips, Some points • Can you prepare a research project without a theory? (Framework or Bed of Procrustes?) • If local knowledge isn´t a methodology or an instrument how can we characterise it? • Is there such a thing as ´pure´ non-interventionist research? • Is ethnographic research always LK? • What do you do with subjects/informants who detest researchers? • Is LK research always long term/longitudinal? Mini curso 2007

  2. Content of sessions • Day Three • Discussion of Street article • Texts in LK research, examples. • The importance of the literacy event • Analysis of an ‘event´. • Day Four • Identities and representations • Examples from research Mini curso 2007

  3. Questions from Street • Is the written word less important now? (compared to the 1970s for example) • Do we need to talk about ‘multimodality´ rather than literacy? • What do you think are the `New’ needs of users of the written word? Do you agree with Street? • How can we do research using texts? • Is it important to find out literacy practices of your informants even if you´re not researching literacy? Mini curso 2007

  4. Text analysis from LK • 1. Examples from Eritrea • What can the children´s drawings tell us? • 2. Academic writers • Measurements and perceptions of writing development: Omani academic writers in English • Anwar Al Balooshi, Jassim Al-Beloushi, Shamsa Al Rasheedi, Nasra Al Sa’adi, Ewen Arnold, John Holmes, ELTJ (forthcoming) Mini curso 2007

  5. Text analysis: students´writing • RQ: How have the students developed as academic writers over the BA course? • Data: texts from different moments in the BA course (pre-, 1st assign., final assign.) • Measurements: Fluency accuracy and complexity • Perceptions: Retrospective protocols Mini curso 2007

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  8. Figure 2 Measures of writing development for Alia Mini curso 2007

  9. Findings • Measures: • Complexity and fluency measures increased • Accuracy measures did not increase consistently • Perceptions: • Retrospective protocols spoke of increasing risk-taking, e.g.instead of direct quotes, using paraphrase and summary. • Mistakes became more complex. Mini curso 2007

  10. Other findings • Retrospective protocols were very useful for helping writers reflect... • Perceptions linked to feedback in the development process. • Feedback should focus on ideas and content and not language. • Learning about T-units helped to develop linguistic complexity. Mini curso 2007

  11. Literacy Events • ‘Literacy is a social activity and can best be described in terms of people´s literacy practices which they draw upon in literacy events.´ Barton 2007 (P.35) • The first basic unit of analysis .... • Events: reading stories..making shopping lists • ‘ A vision of literacy pouring through the house...´(P.149) Mini curso 2007

  12. Analysis of a literacy event • Bogu: 9th-11th March 2007 • Friday 9th: Installation of solar power, children watch videos (in English) • Saturday 10th: Community (men) paint the school and classrooms. • Sunday 11th: formal event (memeraka) Mini curso 2007

  13. The main event • Participants: Men and women, guests from education offices, ATEI and UK, many children... • 1. Music and dance: men and women (Blin) • 2. A quiz for guests and teachers (Tigrinya) • 3. Speeches from guests (Blin, Tigrinya, English) • 4. Present-giving for guests • 5. Reading letters to the ´donors´. (English) • 6. A poem on the advantages of electricity (Blin) • 7. Dances and songs: women (Blin) • 8 Two short sketches: students (Blin) songs between. Mini curso 2007

  14. Event continued.... • 9. Dance to the lunch venue... • 10. Meal served (buffet..) • 11. Speeches in Blin • 12. Praise songs (Blin) • 13. Jokes, and anecdotes (Blin) • 14. Dancing departure of guests... • So, in what way was this a literacy event? Mini curso 2007

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