technical data for the project
- Principal Investigator: Dr. Raúl Alberto Mora
- Co-investigators: Elizabeth (Effy) Agudelo, Yuly Cárdenas, Emanuel Correa, Sara Jaramillo, Ana María Herrera, Christian Salazar, Helena Yepes
- Design stage: September 2016 - December 2017
- Data collection stage: Beginning January 2018
Description
Research in general is very dynamic. Projects evolve, opening new possibilities for expansion and new questions to explore. Our explorations of "the city as literacy" (see Mora, Pulgarín, Ramírez, & Mejía-Vélez, 2018 for an extended definition) as that place where the human and the non-human converge through the different languages that coexist in the city itself have made our inquires move from looking at static spaces (Phase One) to spaces in transit and flux with individual literacy narratives (Phase Two). As we explored the growth of second-language practices in the city, a few questions surfaced: To what extent are these acts isolated and purely individual? Is there a collective element regarding literacy practices in second languages worth inquiring about? How would these practices look across the city?
For this stage, the third of an ethnography-inspired research project (that we are beginning to envision as a longitudinal study at some point), our current research team wants to explore what we are describing as call community spaces. Our initial understanding of community spaces deals with the the different organic communities of affinity that appear by virtue of the extended and more ubiquitous presence of English (and other second languages) in the city. To achieve this, we keep drawing from our notion of city as literacy, expanded to better explain our analysis (for more on these concepts, we invite you to read the LSLP Micro-Papers for each of them):
For this stage, the third of an ethnography-inspired research project (that we are beginning to envision as a longitudinal study at some point), our current research team wants to explore what we are describing as call community spaces. Our initial understanding of community spaces deals with the the different organic communities of affinity that appear by virtue of the extended and more ubiquitous presence of English (and other second languages) in the city. To achieve this, we keep drawing from our notion of city as literacy, expanded to better explain our analysis (for more on these concepts, we invite you to read the LSLP Micro-Papers for each of them):
the city and our Routes as individual and collective narratives
As we are interested in looking at literacy practices in these community spaces, our team, following the same parameters we defined from our first project, has projected three routes of inquiry, all of them with lead researchers, but under the premise that all researchers are actively engaged in all stages of fieldwork and analysis. The three designated routes are:
- Language Exchange - This route describes how different groups and events related to practicing English and other languages are surfacing in unofficial or unsanctioned (i.e. places not linked to school organizations) settings and how they are affecting the culture of second language use across the city.
- Comics - This route describes how English and other languages are a key element in the construction of the comics community in our city, where these languages are part of developing connoisseurship about the deeper features of the genre, such as character mythology.
- Fandom
Academic Presentations
2017
- October - UPB Student Research Group Annual Meeting
- May - Regional Student Research Group (Antioquia Node) Annual Meeting
- May - International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (University of Illinois) (2 conceptual presentations)
- December - Literacy Research Association Annual Conference (1 research presentation)
- September - 1st Lexicom ELT Conference (2 research presentations)
- December - Literacy Research Association Annual Conference (1 research presentation)
- April - AERA Annual Meeting (1 research presentation)
video highlights
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