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公共管理学公共管理学 2121世纪通识教育系列教材世纪通识教育系列教材Chapter 8 Diaries and diary studies Today,we will present the chapter 8 to you,and welcome your advice.From the title,we have already known this chapter is about diaries and diary studies.And according to the needs,we divided it into 5 parts.Now Ill present the first part to you.The first part includes the introduction about the diaries,some definitions,and the nature of the diary data.公共管理学公共管理学 2121世纪通识教育系列教材世纪通识教育系列教材Introduction lDiary-writing is a pervasive narrative form.lIt plays an important role in many peoples private reflections,and it is widely used in specialized and nonspecialized ways in diverse fields,such as history,literature,anthropology,autobiography,sociology,health studies,clinical psychology and psychotherapy.lIn education and in English language teaching,the diaries has become increasingly significant both as a reflective genre,and as one of a battery of interpretive micro-ethnographic research techniques.lMost diary-writing belongs in the categories of least control and selection of data.公共管理学公共管理学 2121世纪通识教育系列教材世纪通识教育系列教材Some definitions lIt is such a rough,impulsive study of life itself,it will prove perhaps that life is not one thing but changes constantly,that character has not one face but a thousand,changing as these pages change.lA diary should contain anecdotes,accounts of conversations;introspective accounts of ones feelings attitudes,motives,understanding in relation to things,events,circumstances and should be kept on a continuous basis.公共管理学公共管理学 2121世纪通识教育系列教材世纪通识教育系列教材lBaileys well known definition is more formalized.“A diary is a firstperson account of a language learning or teaching experience,documented through regular,candid entries in a personal journal and then analysed for recurring patterns or salient events.”lA diary is personal with oneself as addressee,long-term,and may also be relatively unbounded in the kinds of facets it records,at least within the broad area with which it is concerned.lAt the same time,a diary is not only a re-creation of immidiate experience but is also a written record:the act of writing itself is a way of structuring,formulating and reacting to that experience,which is then available for reflection and analysis.公共管理学公共管理学 2121世纪通识教育系列教材世纪通识教育系列教材l The diary as an open-ended narrative genre,it is the principal type and because of its relative frequencyit is not the only possible format.1、Lets make a distinction between logs,journals,and diaries.(1).logs as a record of factual information;(2).diaries as the kind of subjective text described in the previous paragraph;(3).journals as an amalgam of the two,containing both subjective and objective.公共管理学公共管理学 2121世纪通识教育系列教材世纪通识教育系列教材Diary data lraw data:公共管理学公共管理学 2121世纪通识教育系列教材世纪通识教育系列教材Two short diary extracts:Extract A:Teachers diary Am looking forward to having more students next term,particularly in this group which seems to operate so much from shifting balances of personalities and othersreactions to them.Like introducing new ingredients and seeing what happens worried today about not teaching enough,at best giving them opportunities to explore in English.Not that the class went badly,but I felt I did rather little of work.Maybe I should volunteer to teach grammar or something next term I wonder why X ofen doesnt understand the simplest classroom instructions and exercises,and why he refers to himself in the 3rd person?He seems to want to explore a lot in English,but reverts constantly to the electronic dictionary 公共管理学公共管理学 2121世纪通识教育系列教材世纪通识教育系列教材Extract B；Learners diary Chatting before the beginning of the class,some people said they felt they werent making any progress.Personally I feel on a bit of an upward swing at the moment,though it will no doubt change.The language feels like a constant discovery process as things gradually fit together am more confident about talking,and I catch myself at odd moments trying to work out what I might want to say in Greek,though I still have to work it out in English first.Im pleased that things that seemed to crowed in too much at the beginning of the course are now becoming more routine,though of course there are new blocks to fill their place.This time its the future of the passive verbs,which Ive decided not to learn till later.公共管理学公共管理学 2121世纪通识教育系列教材世纪通识教育系列教材lThe nature of data:In fact,the diary is narrative,and it is rather casual and unpolished.There are four features that can be identified as characteristic of diary-generated text.1、The textual material is very rich both quantitatively and qualitatively,in that more than one theme is addressed.2、The diary is self-evidently subjective and introspective where the perspective of the I dominates,and this includes filtering the assumed and reported attitudes of others.公共管理学公共管理学 2121世纪通识教育系列教材世纪通识教育系列教材3、Diaries are necessarily written retrospectively,even if the timelag between the event and the recording is very short just after a lesson,same day.4、The minimal data is still able to demonstrate that diaries can record what happened,what the writer felt about it,what might or should have happened,what could change,opinions,anticipation and immediate reactions,as well as a more reflective tone.