Blog 13

Transcript: Adult Learner and New Literacies

Language Moves:

*M uses I guess a lot at the beginning of her answers.

*In excerpt 1 it seems as if the M is nervous even talking about her experience with computers at first.

*Ch seems persistent to get more information from M by elaborating on her questions.

*In excerpt 2 it seems as if M is answering questions with more relaxed responses. 

*The word “well” is also used a lot. Especially when M seems unsure of something.

Cultural Discourses

*Teacher Discourse

*Student Discourse

*Parent Discourse

*Technology Discourse

Research Question

*What makes this transcript a technology type discourse?

Examples: 

“Ch: that's very interesting.  OK that was your school experience beginning that fall. So then when you took the computer class, how did you feel, it was obviously different.

M: It was different, and ah, it was a fun experience because the teacher was very good, very willing to work with use, she asked us where we were all, part of the class it was you know, twice a week, once we would meet in the classroom, and the other time we would meet in the computer lab, so it was the history of computers, so we learned about the history of computers, and then it was the actual hands on, how we would use it, so and we had to do projects, each project, we had to do an excel project, we had to do a word project, we had to do what else, what other programs are there, we did excel we did word, we did (thinking) what's it? slides?

These two quotes from Ch and M are examples of how my research question can be answered. The two discuss the computer and the different programs M used in her class, therefor identifying that this is a technology discourse.