University of Rome
III - Degree in Languages & International
Communication - Convener: Patrick Boylan - Academic
year 2006-07
COURSE:
612-o English I for English
minors, OCI +
LL
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Group ____ Group Leader:
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TASK N° 4
Due date: April 18, 2007 for the reports to
the Group Leader,
April 20, 2007 for a copy of the reports
plus this sheet to the teacher.
Ethnographic
Report Evaluation Form
Formally,
students' writing should be in British academic style.
Besides using SBE (South-east British English or Standard British
English) as the norm-giving variety for lexico-syntax, it should have
the 6 discourse characteristics indicated
here.
In particular it should make abundant use of the connectives
indicated here.
POINTS:
1 = the paper seems written by
a British academic: 0 =
the style is conversational or follows Italian discourse conventions;
too few connectives.
Content-wise,
the Report should be marked as follows.
POINTS
FOR THE TRANSLATION OF THE ITALIAN QUESTIONNAIRE : 1
= a good cultural-comunicative translation. 0 = a a
poor cultural-comunicative translation or, even worse, a
semantic translation.
Explanation: 1
means that the Italian version of the
questionnaire was culturally adapted to the specific Italian
interviewees, following the three rules for
“cultural-communicative translation” explained in
Appendix E of How to Interview, Section 5.
0 means that the student
translated into Italian all the ideas of the English version of the
questionnaire (this is called a “semantic translation”),
without adapting to Italian culture those ideas that an Italian
interviewee would find difficult to understand. Or if the student
did attempt to adapt the ideas in the original English version, s/he
was not successful in doing so.
POINTS
FOR THE EPISTEMOLOGICAL EVALUATION OF FINDINGS:
1 = The student's report is linear (for an Anglo mentality)
and RESPONSIBLE (carefully documented). 0 = The
report was impressionistic and scientifically
irresponsible.
Explanation. 1
means that the student explains the
"knowledge" she got from her/his interview of Italians, in
a linear way (for Anglo readers) . S/he gave the
conclusions she arrived at and then the premises and the reasoning,
being constantly critical about her/his "knowledge."
S/he also included transcriptions as evidence.
0 means that the student gave mostly intuitive conclusions
based on implicit premises with
few or no transcriptions.
POINTS
FOR THE CREATION OF THE ORIGINAL QUESTIONNAIRE IN ENGLISH: 1
= The questionnaire was truly qualitative and permitted obtaining the
kind of knowledge sought (or if the questionnaire was quantitative,
the student showed why s/he could not get the knowledge s/he wanted
by using a qualitative interview). 0 = The questionnaire was
quantitative, for no justifiable reason, or if it was qualitative, it
was poorly constructed.
Explanation: 1 means
that the student prepared a list of questions that condition the
interviewees only minimally; the questions permit the interviewees to
introduce the student into their world, as it is from their point of
view.
0 = The
questionnaire contained qualitative questions that do not let the
interviewees express their world or, if the questionnaire does permit
this, the questions are neither focused nor coherent and do not
permit arriving at any (tentative) conclusions..
POINTS
FOR THE EPISTEMOLOGICAL EVALUATION OF FINDINGS: 1
= In presenting her/his findings, the
student made explicit her/his premises and reasoning. The
“knowledge” that the student believes s/he gained from
the interview is presented problematically and, at the same time, in
ways permitting some kind of verification, in particular through
transcriptions from the interviews. 0 =
implicit or purely intuitive premises, little criticism of knowledge
obtained, little or no documentation.
Explanation. 1
means that the student demonstrates an awareness of the inevitable
subjectivity of her/his findings and shows how s/he limited the risk
of distortion through authentic empathy with her/his interviewer.
S/he made explicit how s/he reacher her/his conclusions and provided
documentation, for example in the form of transcriptions.
0 means that the student
gave mostly intuitive conclusions based on implicit premises
with few or no transcriptions.
WRITE STUDENTS'
NAMES ON LINE, CIRCLE POINTS FOR EACH CATEGORY, GIVE TOTAL.
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