MATRIX...RELOADED! IDENTIFYING THE SECOND CATEGORY

Designed by Lemos, C. (2010)

Dear all

I have found the way to include the other category. Having a careful look at it, I redesigned my matrix and I identified the other category:

CATEGORY 2 “PRONUNCIATION AWARENESS”: Referred to the acknowledgment that the participants give to this skill in order to feel more confident. In the pre-intervention stage, students recognized that their pronunciation is an impediment to feel confident because they need to work on; during the intervention, they saw that one of the aspects that cooperative learning enhanced regards the way that they listen each other to identify their mistakes in pronunciation and help them, and in the post intervention, they highlighted an improvement in terms of pronunciation and how it eased to achieve this confidence.

Now…. Time to write my analysis with these categories.

FOCUSSED ON THE CONTRUCTS.....PRACTICE AGAIN!

Designed by Lemos, C. (2010)

Dear all

Analyzing the collected data from the constructs, I found the same. Practice is evidenced in all of them. In second place, there is pronunciation awareness. So, I have my categories, but I need to rename and define them:

CATEGORY 1 “PRACTICE AWARENESS”: It is the recognition of the participants about the practice as a need, as an opportunity, and as a strategy in order to achieve the goal (feeling more confident when speaking). In all stages (pre-intervention, pedagogical intervention, post-intervention) practice was an issue to consider.

I am thinking about the other category... Pronunciation awareness, but as I see in the graphic that I designed it is not so strong, but I see it different, perhaps I change the graphic...

THIRD OBJECTIVE: IS VOCABULARY A NEW CATEGORY?

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DEAR ALL

The instruments (initial and final survey) connected with the third objective (to identify advantages of participating in a radio show in the school to face on students’ needs) have brought another phenomenon that could become a category: VOCABULARY.

The participants have expressed a need of expanding vocabulary to improve their speaking confidence through the participation in a radio show. Similarly, one of the strong points that they have found as reason for being more confident now is an improvement in vocabulary. It was an implication of participating, because they used these new words. Consequently, PRACTICE appears again. Pronunciation appears too.

What happened with the instruments for the 4^th specific objective?