Almost at the end of the Initial Investigations phase

DAY 10 25 APRIL 2011

Mehvish is right, AR is not linear, I mean every stage within the cycle. It happened to me, when S asked to meet her to discuss what she had in mind with 3ro Polimodal, she was in fact sort of starting with the action stage, which, according to my plan, comes after I’m done with the initial investigations (observ + indiv interviews).

I suspect schedules will again suffer this week as there seems to be God knows what tomorrow at the school. Once again I’ll have to put off one observ I think.



DAY 11 27 APRIL 2011

Observed S’s lesson and OMG, terrible preparation, I forgot the iPod to audio-record the lesson. Fortunately, a saw a student with his iPhone and borrowed it. Bad bad boy.

The lesson went smoothly. I realised later that S never bothered to do the useless task on the page and instead focused on practising reported speech in relation to verbal communication and the game Chinese whispers or (Broken) Telephone.
Did the interview at 9pm over the phone, horrible horrible thing to do, I was tired, she was tired too, it was short, only 9 minutes, I didn’t feel like asking her things we already know, still couple of issues emerged that I need to explore in future interviews