Practical and theoretical considerations as a researcher-teacher: reflections on a bidialectal programme involving Singlish in a secondary school
This paper is an exercise in reflection on my role as a researcher-teacher, while designing and implementing a qualitative study in a secondary school in Singapore. The first study of its kind locally, I designed and taught a bidialectal programme with Singlish as a resource to facilitate the teachi...
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sg-ntu-dr.10356-1702292023-10-07T16:55:16Z Practical and theoretical considerations as a researcher-teacher: reflections on a bidialectal programme involving Singlish in a secondary school Lu, Luke School of Humanities Humanities::Linguistics Singlish Bidialectal Pedagogy This paper is an exercise in reflection on my role as a researcher-teacher, while designing and implementing a qualitative study in a secondary school in Singapore. The first study of its kind locally, I designed and taught a bidialectal programme with Singlish as a resource to facilitate the teaching of Standard English. The 8-week programme was delivered to two classes of Secondary One students (13 year olds) in a mainstream secondary school, between July to August 2019. In this reflection, I first conceptualize gaining access as part of the research project, resulting in a research design that involved myself as a researcher-teacher. The nature of Singlish then posed particular issues when it came to designing teaching materials for students, even as certain aspects of classroom teaching went well. I discuss my dual position as researcher-teacher in the data collection process, before addressing the importance of and how I shifted between analytic familiarity and distance from the data. It is hoped that being transparent about the research process in this fashion will strengthen the field and be useful to fellow researchers embarking on similar studies. Ministry of Education (MOE) Submitted/Accepted version The study referred to herein (with ethical approval number IRB-2018-05-045) was supported by the Ministry of Education, Singapore, under its Academic Research Fund Tier 1 (RG160/18). 2023-09-04T02:35:35Z 2023-09-04T02:35:35Z 2023 Journal Article Lu, L. (2023). Practical and theoretical considerations as a researcher-teacher: reflections on a bidialectal programme involving Singlish in a secondary school. Pedagogies: An International Journal. https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1554480X.2023.2213224 1554-480X https://hdl.handle.net/10356/170229 10.1080/1554480X.2023.2213224 2-s2.0-85159367510 en RG160/18 Pedagogies: an International Journal This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor and Francis in Pedagogies: an International Journal on 13 May 2023, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com//10.1080/1554480X.2023.2213224. application/pdf |
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This paper is an exercise in reflection on my role as a researcher-teacher, while designing and implementing a qualitative study in a secondary school in Singapore. The first study of its kind locally, I designed and taught a bidialectal programme with Singlish as a resource to facilitate the teaching of Standard English. The 8-week programme was delivered to two classes of Secondary One students (13 year olds) in a mainstream secondary school, between July to August 2019. In this reflection, I first conceptualize gaining access as part of the research project, resulting in a research design that involved myself as a researcher-teacher. The nature of Singlish then posed particular issues when it came to designing teaching materials for students, even as certain aspects of classroom teaching went well. I discuss my dual position as researcher-teacher in the data collection process, before addressing the importance of and how I shifted between analytic familiarity and distance from the data. It is hoped that being transparent about the research process in this fashion will strengthen the field and be useful to fellow researchers embarking on similar studies. |
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