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The three blog interactions posted by the students from both countries were transcribed and segmented into T-units.

3.16.1 Transcription principles (blog interactions)

Verbatim transcription, as used for the interview data, was deemed appropriate for the posts from the blog interactions. The blog posts are typed text that can be interpreted as utterances captured exactly the way they were meant to be spoken, but excluding external sounds and nonverbal cues such as eye contact, facial expressions and body language. In these blog interactions, emoticons were often used to convey nonverbal cues, and they were noted. (A list of emoticons used by the student participants can be found in Appendix Q.)

The postings were taken directly from the blogs in the CLC network, which also recorded other information containing how many students had viewed the post (‘View’), the number of students who commented on the post (‘Comment’), and the comments themselves, which were also transcribed, as shown on the next page.

TITLE CATEGORIES: Samples of Artwork Titles

Communicative Breakthrough, Mask of Emotion, Reach Out for My Dream, Stories of Skyscraper Title as task Figure Drawing, Collage Figure, CLC Artistic Piece, Sufficient Art Piece

Concept Metamorphosis, Disaster, Lone Toothbrush, Flightless, Memories Descriptor Forest Through the Trees, Favourite Sneakers, Cheetah Chase, Purple Head

Blog Interaction 3

Post Topic View Comment Details of comments

22. My final artwork is inspired by the wonder of Taylor Swift.

As I cannot manage my time well and I learn from my mistake that I have to manage my time well. I do not know that I can use pencil colours or crayons so for the next exam, I will not only use painting, I will use pencil colours or crayons.

Posted by SIN/SS/YI55/F 23 May 2011 11:36

17 4 Comment 1

Is that a teardrop on the guitar? Very wonderful!

Posted by AUS/HS/UCK70/M 24 May 2011 14:57

Comment 2

That is a really cool picture. I really like how you put reference to songs in it such as the one mentioned in the previous post.

Posted by AUS/HS/UCK72/M 26 May 2011 13:21

Comment 3

I love the use of tears in the artwork. It creates a sense of emotion in the music.

Posted by SIN/JC/PC028/M 26 May 2011 16:22

Comment 4

The guitar with eye and the mouth is awesome!

What a great idea  Posted by AUS/C/DC022/F 26 May 2011 18:15

3.16.2 Creating units for analysis (blog interactions)

In this study, the T-unit method was adopted to analyse the content posted on the blogs (refer to 3.14.2 for explanation of the T-unit and the process used).

3.16.3 Units for analysis (blog interactions)

Unlike the interview data, the data across the three blogs are constant, therefore, the same set of T-unit categories was maintained throughout the analysis of blogs. The T-unit categories derived from the students’ responses in the blogs are illustrated in Table 3.21.

Table 3.21 Sample of a T-unit aspects of a blog interaction Thought-unit categories for blog interactions

Introduction INTRO

Didactic DID

Self-orientation – personal SOPER

Self-orientation – plans SOPL

Interactive invitation I INV

Over to you – explicit OYE

Over to you – implicit OYI

Request/response RP

Communicative gap/interruption/disruption CL

Each student’s post in each blog was deconstructed into T-units. The content of the shortest discourse can be interpreted and further classified into the appropriate thought- unit categories, as shown in Table 3.22.

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Table 3.22 Samples of completed T-unit analysis for blog interactions

POST 62 Gender Country School

level

INTRO DID SOPER SOPL I INV OYE OYI RP CI EMO

T-unit

My final artwork inspired by the wonder of Taylor Swift. F SIN SS  As I cannot manage my time well and I learn from my mistake that I have

to manage my time well.

F SIN SS 

I do not know that I can use pencil colours or crayons F SIN SS 

so for the next exam, I will not only use painting, I will use pencil colours or crayons.

F SIN SS 

TOTAL: 0 0 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0

POST 63 Gender Country School

level

INTRO DID SOPER SOPL I INV OYE OYI RP CI EMO

T-Unit

Is that a teardrop on the guitar? M AUS HS 

Very wonderful! M AUS HS 

TOTAL: 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0

POST 64 Gender Country School

level

INTRO DID SOPER SOPL I INV OYE OYI RP CI EMO

T-Unit

That is a really cool picture. M AUS HS 

I really like how you put reference to songs in it such as the one mentioned in the previous post.

M AUS HS 

TOTAL: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0

POST 65 Gender Country School

level

INTRO DID SOPER SOPL I INV OYE OYI RP CI EMO

T-Unit

I love the use of tears in the artwork. M SIN C 

It creates a sense of emotion in the music. M SIN C 

TOTAL: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0

POST 66 Gender Country School

level

INTRO DID SOPER SOPL I INV OYE OYI RP CI EMO

T-Unit

The guitar with the eye and the mouth is awesome! F AUS C 

What a great idea  F AUS C  