CLASSROOM OBSERVATION

CLASSROOM OBSERVATION

1. Is a family of related procedures for gathering data during actual language lessons

   • Electronic
     • Audio/video recordings
     • Synchronous and asynchronous chat records
   • Manual
     • Field Notes
     • Observation schedules/schemes

2. APPROACHES

   • Using observation systems to code classroom data
     • document SS and T behaviors/speech during lessons
       • category system
       • sign system
   • Producing ethnographic narratives
     • complete picture of speech and interaction
       • time-consuming
   • Transcribing classroom interaction
     • Coding
       • time-consuming

3. SYSTEMS FOR OBSERVING LANGUAGE CLASSROOM INTERACTION

   • FOCUS
     • communication as patterned events
   • COLT
     • evaluate intact classes

4. OBSERVATIONAL DATA AND DISCOURSE ANALYSIS

   • IRF PATTERN

5. OBSERVING SOCIAL ASPECTS OF CLASSROOM INTERACTION

   • social life
     • SCORE Data
     • Classroom maps

6. THE CENTRAL ROLE OF OBSERVATION IN LANGUAGE CLASSROOM RESEARCH

   • process studies
     • observational data
   • process-product sudies
     • classroom observational data/examination of outcome measures

7. QUALITY CONTROL ISSUES

   • Coverage
     • how adequate the audio/video is
       • reliability
   • inter-coder agreement
     • two observers working with the same data