Full Description
Many professionals and students have a need to make small-scale investigations of talk or reading and writing behaviour - whether as case studies, for coursework, or as part of their own professional development. This volume shows how experienced researchers have approached the tasks and what they have discovered about the social and cultural embeddedness of language and literacy practices. The first section of this book provides an accessible introduction to the nature of ethnography; a discussion of ethical issues in sociolinguistic research; and a step-by-step guide to recording talk and preparing transcripts for analysis. The second section includes ten research studies, chosen for their intrinsic interest, as well as their usefulness in illustrating aspects of methodology, and ways of presenting and analysing empirical data.
Contents
Section 1Hammersley; the relations between researcher and researched - ethics, advocacy and empowerment, D. Cameron, E. Frazer, P. Harvey, M.B.H. Rampton, and K. Richardson; observing and recording talk in educational settings, Joan Swann. Section 2 Research in practice: negotiation as a criterial factor in learning to read in a second language, Eve Gregory; through whose eyes? Exploring racism through literature with white students, Beverley Naidoo; I treat them all the same - teacher-pupil talk in multi-ethnic classroom A.P. Biggs and Viv Edwards; reading as a social process in a middle school classroom, David Bloome; childrens voices - talk, knowledge and identity, Janet Maybin; gender inequalities in classroom interaction, Joan Swann and David Graddol; unequal voices - gender and assessment, Julie Fisher; no gap, lots of overlap - turn-taking patterns in the talk of women friends, Jennifer Coates; cultural values in Samish and Australian childrens literature - a corpus linguistic approach, Meeri Hellsten; roles, networks and values in everyday writing, David Barton and Sarah Padmore.
