![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
A Piece of Reality
Thursday, April 19th, 2007 08:27 amBehealdaþ!
This is a part of the transcript I had to do for one of my courses in German. The sequence I transcribed was from a science class students between the age of ten and eleven are attending.
They're learning how electricity works, the lesson before this one they'd built their own switch. Here, the task of the day is introduced to them, and they are supposed to explain how the (rather crude) electric device they're facing works.
( The transcript )
The browser slightly messes up the table, though.
I feel like Professor Higgins, only that phonetic transcriptions are far more interesting than transcribing what class 4b has to say on the subject of electricity, really.
You should see the discussions sparked by those transcripts, too. Last week, we had a ninety minute discussion about a dialogue of four lines, about one word ("Blank" = shiny, clean, not isulated). There were huge arguments about how the inflections and intonations one child used reflects upon her personality, grasp of more abstract concepts, and her nature in general. It was a bit ridiculous and didn't have a lot to do with linguistics. At all. The class is supposed to be an advanced seminar in linguistics, though.
That is mainly because most people in that class think that linguistic is a spreading disease and have no clue about grammar. When a girl gave an explanation of what was really happening in the passage we were discussing, she was looked at like an alien.
I like her.
This is a part of the transcript I had to do for one of my courses in German. The sequence I transcribed was from a science class students between the age of ten and eleven are attending.
They're learning how electricity works, the lesson before this one they'd built their own switch. Here, the task of the day is introduced to them, and they are supposed to explain how the (rather crude) electric device they're facing works.
( The transcript )
The browser slightly messes up the table, though.
I feel like Professor Higgins, only that phonetic transcriptions are far more interesting than transcribing what class 4b has to say on the subject of electricity, really.
You should see the discussions sparked by those transcripts, too. Last week, we had a ninety minute discussion about a dialogue of four lines, about one word ("Blank" = shiny, clean, not isulated). There were huge arguments about how the inflections and intonations one child used reflects upon her personality, grasp of more abstract concepts, and her nature in general. It was a bit ridiculous and didn't have a lot to do with linguistics. At all. The class is supposed to be an advanced seminar in linguistics, though.
That is mainly because most people in that class think that linguistic is a spreading disease and have no clue about grammar. When a girl gave an explanation of what was really happening in the passage we were discussing, she was looked at like an alien.
I like her.
