I'm trying NOW to revise my first thoughts, relating them to qualitative study:
- feedback on writing & its effect on students' revision (could collect student papers w/ teacher comments throughout the process of writing)
- gender differences (teachers to students) – Who calls on whom? How often? Who is ignored? If it’s not too much, in what way are students of one gender engaged with their opposite0sex teacher (rambunctious, disparaging, cocky, respectful, etc.)
- different teachers’ classroom procedures for starting &/or ending class and their relative/perceived effectiveness for the purpose of settling students down and getting them on-task quickly
- how teachers use modern music (audio, written lyrics, videos) to teach literature (analysis, comparison, etc.)
- students' opinion of English as a subject and the correlation with teacher attitude towards them and towards English as a subject (reading, writing, grammar, vocabulary)
. McCoy and Dr. Milner - I think these are more specific and "do-able" but . . . which ones are the better ones to choose, given our observations??? I really love #4, but #2 or #3 seem most "observable." What do you think???
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Mary Beth, you have about twenty different topics here. Most of them have been done by students in recent years. I can't tell what you are interested in. You give numbers, but you don't number the topics, so I can't tell what they are. Why don't you browse the research literature and see what sounds interesting. See if you can think of something from your experience that you would be interested in studying.
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