I'm currently working on my topic analysis (aren't we all?) and I'm just pretty much trying to break things down as far as questions go. I have the who, what, when, where, how and why, now I just need to put it all together in some sort of coherent paragraph form. I'll have copies tomorrow for all to read.
Thus far, I am becoming more interested in the use of oral language and it's ability to either join people into groups or act as a pulling force. Maybe it would be a good idea to incorporated literature on how spaces are created by language?
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7 years ago
Hi Melissa, this sounds interesting and it might be most useful to approach this inductively for now--letting your theory to emerge from your observations and later try to connect them to the existing literature. I think it is great that you are trying to imagine what body of literature you would like to have your conversation with. Maybe you (and everybody else) should keep asking this question often and keep track of the answers you find appropriate. We should definitely discuss this in class. For now, to be honest, I don't even know how I should think about this relationship between spoken language and belonging in the context of the classroom.
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