The length of the remark was indicated by one, two, or three ticks. The next stage of exploratory practice was to make our problem even more explicit. We also wished to discover just what teachers and students said to each other in the classroom. It is also known as 'reactivity' and means an alteration in the normal behaviour of a subject under observation, due to the observation itself. After playing the recording for the group to hear, we asked their permission to use it as data.
Younger students are usually keen to hear themselves and to be heard by friends.
Producing and Analysing transcripts Listening to audio-recordings of lessons, although interesting at first, does not reveal very much. The next stage involved writing transcripts of the lessons we had taped. Transcribing even one forty minute lesson in detail can be a phenomenal task. This term, borrowed from land-surveying, suggests that at least two perspectives are necessary if an accurate picture of a particular phenomenon is to be obtained. In such circumstances the classroom power relationship is far too highly asymmetrical, ie.