Examining Transcription [microform] : A Theory-Laden Methodology / Judith C. Lapadat and Anne C. Lindsay
- Bib ID:
- 5617733
- Format:
- Book and Microform
- Author:
- Lapadat, Judith C
- Online Version:
- https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED419821
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- [Washington D.C.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1998
- 40 p.
- Summary:
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Transcription is an integral process in the qualitative analysis of language data, and is widely employed in basic and applied research across a number of disciplines and in professional practice fields. Yet methodological and theoretical issues associated with the transcription process have received scant attention in the research literature. The extant literature on transcription is reviewed across disciplines, and an empirical study of transcription as used by practitioners and researchers in training is reported. Five pairs of female graduate students in a language development class transcribed a book reading session with a mother and a child. Findings showed that participants' transcripts differed in layout, quantity, and type of elements of the interaction they transcribed, conventions they derived to represent those elements, and the consistency with which they applied the conventions. It was also found that transcription decisions were linked to interpretive consequences. It is concluded that transcription is theory-laden; the choices researchers make about transcription enact the theories they hold and constrain the interpretations they can draw form their data. As it has implications for the interpretation of research data and for decision-making in educational practice, transcription as a process warrants further investigation. (Contains 6 figures and 37 references.) (SLD)
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- Sponsoring Agency: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Ottawa (Ontario).
- ERIC Note: Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (San Diego, CA, April 13-17, 1998).
- May also be available online. Address as at 14/8/18: https://eric.ed.gov/
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- Microfiche. [Washington D.C.]: ERIC Clearinghouse microfiches : positive.
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- Lindsay, Anne C, author
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