Activity Theory and tools for analysing language

From: Gill Boag-Munroe (gillboag@yahoo.co.uk)
Date: Fri Aug 08 2003 - 07:53:00 PDT


I'm currently working on my PhD exploring how teachers make sense of their work in initial teacher training in the context of all their other work. I'm trying to answer my research questions through an investigation of the language in use in the activity, and am especially interestd in drawing on Critical Disocurse Analysis to help me unpick some of what is happening for the classroom teacher mentor. (Sorry if this is not a very academic way of expressing myself: I'm still searching for the language with which to describe what I do!)
 
In my reading (notably Wodak and Meyer, 2000) I have come across the work of Siegfried Jager, and would like to read some more of his ideas. However, my German is not that good, so I wondered whether anyone in the xmca community knew where I could find his work in translation?
 
I've been enjoying the discussion of literature recently(I'm a teacher of English). You might enjoy Phillip Larkin's 'Days' and 'This be the Verse' if you can access them easily; or Joseph Roth's novella 'The legend of the Holy Drinker'.
 
Gill Boag-Munroe

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