The transcript that I picked was sample transcript was the transcript number one about adult learners. A possible research question that I would address is how does advanced technology affect adults learning process who have may not been exposed to new technology.
My analysis will show how opportunities for higher learning to take place. The lens that I choose to apply to the transcript is language. There a lot of points that I noticed where language had an influence on the transcript. To start the interview off it was very casual. Ch who was the interviewer asked opinion based questions that M who was the subject could answer easily. The answer that M gave were feelings about this or that and recalling memories. What I thought was interesting was when they began discussing the use of the computer. M began to describe her fears in relation to the computer. She didn't think she could ever use the computer for math. She didn't trust the technology and didn't believe that it could analyze the information the way that she could. Why use the computer program to do math if she could do it on her own just fine. M also continued to say she didn't relate the computer to education, and that she didn't think that it was necesary. As the transcript progressed the dynamics of the language changed immensely. M now became the one who was developing longer answers as opposed to before when she just gave short phrases. Her answers were more in detail and I think it was because she has become more comfortable. When M begins to talk about how her life changed when she first bought a computer is when the emotion of the piece really came in. She was able to discuss how she got exposed to useage of the computer and how slowly she became more advanced and more comfortable with it. The conclusion of the article was based on M's realization that now if she did have questions about computers she would ask someone or she would read about it. She has now realized that her fear of computers doesnt have to occur anymore because she knows a lot more then she thought and she now knows how computers can be applied to education.
The transcript realtes to Mandy Smith's research essay because the interviewer asked the subject to recall personal accounts and memories which promotes new opportunites for both parties to learn.
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