Placement Report-An Unforgettable Learning and Practical Journey with
Multilingualism
Name: Yeshan Qian
Student number: S3347036
MA Multilingualism: Research Internship
Supervisor: Eva Juarros-Daussà; Charlotte Gooskens
Preface
This paper is a placement report which describes all the work I have done during the period of research internship. This report vividly illustrates my motivation to dedicate to this placement, provides a description of the organization offering the placement and the placement itself, and states the placement tasks I have completed comprehensively. The report also states my evaluation and reflections on the placement in detail, from seven various aspects, ranging from the correlation between my course and professional practices to the contributions that this placement made to my career goals. Through this report, others can clearly learn about all the contents regarding this placement and have knowledge of the author’s personal reflection and progress obtained by doing the placement. More importantly, the report to some extent serves as a medium through which the supervising lecturer and others can evaluate whether the placement’s tasks have been successfully carried out and whether the scheduled learning outcomes have been fulfilled. And It is for the reasons stated above that it is of necessity and meaningful to write this placement report, not only for getting feedback and evaluation from supervisors and other people, but also for recording the work and more importantly the reflection got from this working experience.
CONTENTS
1. Introduction
2. A Description of the Organization Providing the Placement
3. A Description of Tasks
4. An Evaluation of the Placement
4.1 The useful aspects of my course for the placement
4.2 The new knowledge and skills I have acquired
4.3 The correlation between my course and professional practices
4.4 The extent of learning outcomes to which I have reached
4.5 A description of supervision
4.6 An introduction to the reasons why I chose the organization and
how I obtained it
4.7 The contributions this placement made to my career goals
5. Conclusion
Bibliography
Supplements
1. Introduction
During my study of multilingualism, I have more than once pondered over what I really want to probe into. When I was studying the course “Language Planning and Policy”, I got an opportunity to do a team research concerning the management of multilingualism in an immigrant society- the case of Netherlands. On account of this research, I interviewed a typical Hongkong immigrant family in Leeuwarden, the Netherlands and I find it very interesting to research the multilingual families. The research project provided by Eva Juarros-Daussà intrigued me a great deal so I applied this placement and I was so glad that I got the opportunity to work with Eva about family language policy in Internet forums. During my internship, I benefit a great deal in various aspects ranging from the acquisition of theoretical academic knowledge and research methodology to the understanding of family multilingualism and the core of doing research. Moreover, doing this internship contributes to my abilities of tackling problems and negotiating with other people. Furthermore, I raped useful advice on my application for a PhD from Eva during the process of my internship.
In this paper it will be discussed this meaningful placement experience combined with my personal reflections and thoughts. The paper consists of seven major parts, namely the introduction part, three body parts, conclusion part, bibliography part and supplements. The introduction part states some background information about my motivation for doing this internship, illustrates some key benefits obtained by working on the internship, and provides an overview of the paper. The body parts consist of three main perspectives of the internship, namely a description of the organization providing the placement, a description of the tasks and an evaluation of the placement, which will be correlated with my own reflection and thoughts. Among the three perspectives, the evaluation of the placement will be illustrated by seven subsections comprehensively. The conclusion part summarizes the main points of the paper and provides some further reflection on this placement on my process of the internship work. The supplements present 11 tables showing the summary of the work done every week through the whole period of my internship, and some documents recording the work that I have done for the internship.
2. A Description of the Organization Providing the Placement
The organization providing the placement is RUG Research Project “Family Language Policy in Internet Forums”. Deeply rooted in Groningen, City of Talent, RUG is the heart of the city’s higher education and academic research (website rug-about us). With a rich academic history dating back to 1614, the University of Groningen is a research institution of higher learning boasting of a global outlook (website rug-who are we).
The research project includes compiling, organizing, and analyzing data from internet forums and Facebook pages by multilingual families around the world.
3. A Description of Tasks
The internship is about family multilingualism and heritage languages. The research project includes compiling, organizing, and analyzing data from internet forums and Facebook pages all over the world.
My role in the placement is to obtain the data on internet forums and Facebook pages by multilingual families around the world, and process the data in a quantitative way, and tackle any problems occurred in this process. Besides, I was responsible for retrieving and reading pertinent literature in online university library system and some other research institutions. Additionally, I negotiated with a bachelor student in the process of the project. Also, I played an active role in attending some linguistic talks with my supervisor which benefited me a great deal. And I also explored my application for a PhD during my internship period. Lastly, I write a final internship report on my participation in the project.
Concretely, the tasks of my internship are divided into three major stages: the first period is from February 5th 2018 to March 22nd 2018, and my main task in this period was to collect data from 7 internet forums and Facebook pages and organize the data in a clear manner; the second stage is from March 23rd 2018 to April 15th 2018, and I focused on organizing the overall data and analyzing the data in a quantitative way; the third stage is from April 16th 2018 to April 22nd 2018 during which I had discussions about the data analysis with my supervisor Eva and Lotte (a bachelor student who also contributed to the project), and made an academic poster together. The detailed description of the tasks that I did every working day is presented in Table 1 to Table 11 in supplements.
4. An Evaluation of the Placement
4.1 The useful aspects of my course for the placement
From my point of view, there are five main useful aspects of my course for the placement:
1. The theoretical knowledge that I have acquired from my course of the program multilingualism set a good foundation for my working for the placement.
2. The research methodology that I learned from the course “Essential Statistics” equips me with the basic ability of organizing, processing and analyzing data in a quantitative way like in Excel and R.
3. On account of my knowledge obtained from the course “Language Planning and Policy”, I have knowledge of the family multilingualism and the heritage language. More importantly, this course to some extent motivates me to study family multilingualism.
4. I acquired the capacity to write academic paper and made poster from the course that I have attended. For instance, I learned how to make an academic poster from the course “Minority Languages: The Case of Frisian”.
5. I have acquired the careful and rigorous attitude towards research by learning my courses, which is of vital importance to my internship.
4.2 The new knowledge and skills I have acquired
First of all, I have learned how to collect, organize and analyze data for
the research project and applies what I have learned in class to practice. For instance, when I was analyzing the data in a quantitative way during my internship, I used the knowledge of R acquired in my course “Essential Statistics”. Secondly, my negotiating and cooperative abilities have been improved as I needed to negotiate and work with my supervisor Eva, and Lotte. For example, in the weekly meeting with my supervisor Eva, we would interact and exchange ideas and negotiate the work to be done in the next period. In addition, I have acquired the ability to tackle problems that occurred during the work. For instance, when I could not retrieve the literature in the online university library system, I contacted the staff in the library and also sent email to other libraries that has the book, and managed to find the literature I needed. Also, I come to understand the essence of doing research and the meaning of studying languages.
More importantly, with the help of Eva, I have learned how to equip myself with qualified knowledge and abilities for a PhD application. For instance, I have started to play an active role in some research activities such as linguistic talks and presentation in the academic conferences. During the placement, I attended two linguistic talks with Eva and did benefit a lot from it. Also, with Eva’s help, we made an academic poster and got our project in the 1st Conference on Frisian Humanities. In the conference, I got the opportunity to present the poster with Lotte to other scholars and had interactions with them, which not only builds up my confidence, but also improves my ability to present academic work in public.
4.3 The correlation between my course and professional practices
One of the definitions of professional practices is “the use of one’s
knowledge in a particular profession” (Reference.MD website). I reckon that my course and professional practices are closely related with each other. Concretely, for one thing, the theoretical knowledge can be employed in professional practices, thereby gauging whether I have acquired qualified professional knowledge concerning my subject. For another, professional practices in turn make contributions to the consolidation of theoretical knowledge.
Regarding the relationship between my subject and internship, as I am majoring in multilingualism and my internship is about family multilingualism. Therefore, it is closely correlated. On account of the knowledge that I have acquired from my courses including family language policy, research methodology, etc., I am able to work on the tasks of my internship. And it is through this opportunity to do the internship that I am
able to evaluate my professional knowledge, especially its employment in practical research project.
4.4 The extent of learning outcomes to which I have reached
At the end of the internship, all the placement’s assignments were properly carried out, and the planned and scheduled learning outcomes were fulfilled.
Regarding the data collection, I have managed to collect 502 messages from seven internet forums and Facebook pages by multilingual families around the world. With regard to the data analysis, I managed to analyze the data in a quantitative way including clearing the data, a chi-square treatment of the data in R, making relevant figures and tables presenting the results and so on. Furthermore, my supervisor Eva and I made an analysis and discussions about the results and figures that I did, and eventually we did an academic poster together with Lotte. The poster was presented in the 1st Conference on Frisian Humanities in Leeuwarden, the Netherlands. More importantly, I successfully solved the problems and difficulties that occurred during my internship. When it comes to my exploring for a PhD, I have received lots of useful advice and feedback such as how to plan my application, how to apply for and participate in academic conferences to improve my research ability and so on.
In order to have a clear look at the work I have done every working day, I made a table every week and wrote down the important points and tasks I completed every day. The tables are presented in the supplements part.
4.5 A description of supervision
In this part, I am to present the supervision in two parts, namely supervision by the placement provider and supervision by the University/Degree Program.
1. Supervision by the placement provider includes:
1) Training in collecting data in the internet forums and Facebook pages 2) Designing effective ways to organize the data
3) Discussing suitable analysis techniques, and posterior analyzing the original data
4) Discussing sessions about the topic, including reading and collecting pertinent literature
5) Weekly meetings to cover all of the above
Every Monday except for some particular change of time, I would have a weekly meeting with my supervisor of the placement, during which I would present all the work I did through the whole week, communicated and
negotiated with my teacher, solved problems, make plans and so on. And I would make relevant adjustments according to the feedback got from the weekly meeting. Table 1 to Table 11 in the supplements part shows in a detailed and organized way the work that I completed every week.
2. Supervision by the University/Degree Programme includes: 1) Preparations with regard to the contents of the placement
2) Interim evaluation by the form of email interaction about halfway through the placement
3) Evaluation at the end of the placement and grading of the placement report
4.6 An introduction to the reasons why I chose the organization and how I obtained it
As for the reasons why I chose the organization, I think it is related to
my learning experience. Specifically speaking, when I am in process with the field work of the course of “Language Planning and Policy” of MA Multilingualism and when I conducted the interview and had interactions with a typical multilingual Hongkong immigrant family in Leeuwarden, the Netherlands, I find it very interesting and intriguing. I think it is of great necessity to study the relationship between language, family and identity. Then I gladly found that my teacher Eva posted two placement
opportunities via Nestor that were about family multilingualism and heritage languages. And I was particularly interested in one of the placements which is concerning the use of Internet forums by multilingual families. After pondering carefully, I made up my mind to send an email with my curriculum vitae to my teacher Eva to apply for this placement and I was so glad that I eventually got the opportunity to work with my teacher Eva for this internship placement.
4.7 The contribution this placement made to my career goals
When it comes to the contributions this placement has made to my
career goals, I would like to illustrate in two aspects, namely short-term career goals and long-term career goals.
For short-term career goals, because my MA thesis is about the language transmission among Chinese immigrant families in Groningen, the Netherlands, and thus it is correlated with my internship. So some literature that I have read for my internship and the professional knowledge and skills I acquired can contribute to my thesis writing. Additionally, I have made up my mind to apply PhD next year. During my internship, I have practically worked for my placement supervisor’s research project, have attended some linguistic talks, participated in academic conferences, learned how to make a well-organized academic poster, etc. All of these experiences are beneficial to my PhD application and my personal development.
For long-term career objectives, I want to become an English teacher in the university and continue the language studies for my future career. This placement has profound and further influence on my pursuing long-term goal as I learned a great deal from my supervisor Eva in the placement. Because of Eva’s useful advice, help and encouragement, I make progress step by step. And such impact, as far as I am concerned, is long-lasting which will have a positive impact on my realization of long-term career goals.
5. Conclusion
To conclude, in this placement report, I present a description of the
organization providing the placement and the placement itself. In addition, I present a detailed explanation of the placement’s assignments and my evaluation of the placement. The evaluation part is the key part of this placement report, in which I illustrate comprehensively in seven subparts, namely the useful aspects of my course for the placement, the new knowledge and skills I have acquired from the placement, the correlation between my course and professional practices, the extent of learning outcomes to which I have reached, a description of supervision, and an introduction of the reasons why I chose this placement and how I obtained it. All the explanation are correlated with my own reflections and thoughts managed in a coherent and well-organized way.
I reckon that this working experience is undoubtedly meaningful and beneficial to me, not only for my current studies, but also for my long-term language studies and career development. Also, I do make progress a great deal through the completion of the placement.
Theoretical knowledge and professional practices are positively related with each other (website Reference.MD). This paper provides a comprehensive discussion about this meaningful placement experience combined with my personal reflections and thoughts on it.
Acknowledgements
I want to take this opportunity to thank to my supervisor – Eva Juarros-Daussà, who gives me many constructive and helpful suggestions and help in the process of my internship.
Meanwhile, I want to appreciate my supervisor in the Degree programme - Charlotte Gooskens, who supervises my progress of my placement.
Also, I want to thank to my teacher Hanneke Loerts, who gives me useful advice and feedback about the quantitative analysis in my process of the placement.
Finally, I would like to appreciate all the other teachers and classmates who give me help and encouragement.
Bibliography
Rug-about us website: http://www.rug/about-us/ (visited on May 2nd 2018). Rug-who are we website: https://www.rug.nl/about-us/who-are-we/ (visited on
May 2nd 2018).
Reference.MD website: http://www.reference.md/files/D011/mD011364.html (visited on May 3rd 2018).
Supplements
a. Internet forums and Facebook pages for collecting the data:
1. Facebook page: Raising Bilingual/Multilingual Children 2. Facebook page: Multilingual Parenting
3. Facebook page: Raising Bilingual Kids and Little Global Citizens
4. Internet forum: The Bilingual Zoo-A community for keepers of bilingual and multilingual kids
https://bilingualmonkeys.forums.net/board/4/concerns 5. Internet forum: Multilingual Children
http://forums.multilingualchildren.org/
http://forums.multilingualchildren.org/post/one-parent-teaching-two-languages-48 86461
6. Internet forum: English forum Switzerland (very few cases)
https://www.englishforum.ch/family-matters-health/146496-multilingual-problem s-can-baby-learn-4-languages.html
7. Facebook page: Raising Bilingual/Multilingual Children in a Second/Non-native Language
http://www.facebook.com/groups/2ndLP/#_=_
b. Sample messages of the 8 main categories collected from internet forums and Facebook pages:
Categories - Sample Messages
Resources - “I'm hoping to find something similar but in either Spanish or French.
Anyone know of such a site?”
Education (school) - “Her education is going to continue in a local school in
Swedish curriculum. I wonder if she can learn Swedish easily or not? Do you have any suggestions for us? Thank you very much.”
Transmission strategies - “My 10 year old can understand and speak some Spanish
but I haven’t been speaking to my 2 year old (27 months) in Spanish at all. How do I go about starting with him?”
Preference of language by child - “It makes me sad that my first son doesn't speak
any German anymore. We read German books and I can ask him questions in German but he responds in English. (…) Do you have any advice? is it already too late? we'll visit my parents in Germany in the summer so I'm hoping that will help. What else could I do?”
Miscellaneous - “Hello, here's a question I never thought I'd ask: how do you
organize your books? Would you have a shelf by language for example and strictly select the OPOL one? Do you let your children choose?”
Speech delays - “My son's language is still slightly behind. His Dr. has not
recommended speech therapy, as he is doing well enough. But we do notice that he is still behind his peers (…) Any ideas on how to encourage/help him?.”
Language mixing - “At the moment my 2.5 year old chats a lot and mixing the 2
languages plus adds her own words… Just teach the colours in Hungarian and accept that it will be a bit more difficult for her in school at the beginning until she catches up? Or try and teach them in both languages?”
Mixed category - “I haven’t been speaking to my 2 year old (27months) in Spanish at
all. How do I go about starting with him? (…) I’ve ordered some Spanish books but after getting them, I noticed they are too much for him and he loses interest since he doesn’t understand. Should I get some beginner books instead?”
c. Tables presenting the work done every working day of the placement Table 1:
Week Date Work done
One Monday, February 5th, 2018
-First meeting with my supervisor Eva during which Eva described in detail the project that I would do internship for and elaborated on my role in the internship.
-Decided the time of weekly meeting and the timetable with Eva.
Wednesday, February 7th, 2018
-Searched Facebook pages and online forums and made a list of forums to collect data for the project.
-Collected 17 cases on Facebook page: Multilingual Parenting and organized data in a well-designed way.
-Meeting with my supervisor and Lotte (a BA student who has also done part of the work for the project) through which Lotte presented all the work she has done yet so that I could continue the work without overlapping.
Friday, February 9th, 2018 -Tried to collect 3 cases on internet forum: Multilingual Children and organized the data in a logical manner.
-Collected 12 cases on internet forum: The Bilingual Zoo in an organized way.
Table 2:
Week Date Work done
Two Monday, February 12th, 2018
-Had weekly meeting with supervisor and Lotte (a BA student who has done part of the work for the
project) to present what I have done in week one and to discuss our plan and ideas in the next period.
-Added a new category 15 for our data categorization in weekly meeting after discussing.
-Met supervisor and Lotte later on for the transfer of work from Lotte, and negotiated the time Lotte needs to spend on poster for our project.
-Added background information to the data collected from Facebook page-Multilingual Parenting by Lotte, and deleted the cases that were overlapped with what I collected and uploaded in Google document.
-Made a timetable and schedule of weekly meeting for the internship
Wednesday, February 14th, 2018
-Had interaction with supervisor about the articles that I should read for the background literature part.
-Discussed with supervisor about the registration of the Frisian Humanities conference in which we will get our project in for a poster; and I have contacted Nadia about it.
-Collected 10 cases in the Facebook page-Raising Bilingual/Multilingual Children.
Thursday, February 15th, 2018
-Attended a linguistic talk “Immigrant Brides and Husbands: Dynamics of Racialization and Patriarchy in East Asia” with my supervisor Eva, and learnt a great deal about the ethnographic method.
Table 3:
Week Date Work done
Three Monday, February 19th, 2018
-Weekly meeting with my supervisor in which I presented the work I did in week one
-Collected 7 cases on Facebook page: Raising Bilingual/Multilingual Children; collected 10 cases on Facebook page: Raising Bilingual Kids and Little Global Citizens; collected 5 cases on Facebook page: Multilingual Parenting (22 data in total)
-Had a short meeting with Lotte in which she presented me the work she did for the poster of our project and negotiated how to upload her data in Google document
Wednesday, February 21th, 2018
-Contacted libraries and institutions around the world including National Library of Poland to ask the book and article for internship. Had gotten access to the full text of the article I need.
-Collected 3 cases on Internet forum: Multilingual Children; collected 1 case on Facebook page: Multilingual Parenting; collected 12 cases on Facebook page: Raising Bilingual/Multilingual Children; collected 2 cases on Facebook page: Raising Bilingual Kids and Little Global Citizens (18 data in total)
Thursday, February 22nd, 2018
-Collected 20 cases from Facebook pages -Looked for new forum for data collection and added one new forum for collecting data -Organized the data collected
Friday, February 23th, 2018 -Organized 30 cases from Facebook pages -Organized the data collected
Table 4:
Week Date Work done
Four
Monday, February 26th, 2018
-Weekly meeting with my supervisor Eva through which I presented what I did in week three, discussed the resources we need to use for our project, and talked about some questions I had.
-Talked about my pursuing a PhD; my supervisor gave a some useful information about my PhD application and some helpful advice on doing internship and participating in some linguistic talks to gain comprehensive experience and thoughts.
-Collected 20 data in total on Facebook pages. Wednesday, February
28th, 2018
-Collected 19 data on Facebook pages and organized the data in a logical manner.
-Read reference concerning our project
-Contacted the staff in the library of University of Groningen for the book I need to read for the project.
Friday, March 2nd, 2018 -Collected 22 data on Facebook pages for quantitative analysis
-Read articles concerning the internship and wrote reviews for the articles that I read
Table 5:
Week Date Work done
Five
March 5th, 2018 -Weekly meeting with my supervisor through which we made a specific timetable and schedule for the work to do in the following period of our project
-Communicated about my responsibilities in making a poster for our project in Frisian Humanities conference and writing the methodology and result parts of the article for our project
-Collected 20 data on three relatively active Facebook pages and organized the data in a clear way
March 7th, 2018 -Retrieved some articles and books concerning the project and uploaded them on the googledrive which we worked on.
-Contacted the university library staff and borrowed the books that we need for our project
-Collected 20 data on Facebook forums and Internet forums and organized the data properly
March 8th, 2018 -Collected 21 data in total, including 12 cases collected from the relatively inactive internet forum: The Bilingual Zoo.
-Began adding background information to the data collected by Lotte (a BA student who also has done some part of the work).
Table 6:
Week Date Work done
Six
Monday, March 12th, 2018
-Weekly meeting with my supervisor through which we decided the schedule of the next stage, and came up with the research questions of our project.
-Discussed about the time to meet with Hanneke who will help with the advice on the quantitative tests I will use to analyze the data.
-Have finished adding background information to the Data collected by Lotte, and have organized in a logical manner. -incorporate the data collected by Lotte into the excel forms which I used to organize the
data
-Collected 3 data
Wednesday, March 14th, 2018
-Collected 32 data in total on Facebook pages and internet forums
-Organized the data collected in excel forms in a well-organized way
-made notes regarding the methodology part of the article of the project
Friday, March 16th, 2018 -Collected 17 data on 3 relatively active Facebook groups
-Organized the data in the excel forms and uploaded and refreshed the documents on Google drive
Table 7:
Week Date Work done Seven Monday, March
19th, 2018
-Weekly meeting with supervisor Eva and discussed some message collected that I was not sure; made a schedule of the meeting next Monday for discussing the quantitative tests.
-Collected 26 data in total on 4 Facebook pages and have organized the data.
Tuesday, March 20th, 2018
-Attended the linguistic talk Some reflections on the cognitive effects of
bilingualism given Elma Blom from Utrecht University. I have benefited
a great deal including the innovative idea, tasks involved in methodological part and so on.
Wednesday, March 21th, 2018
-Collected 18 data in total on Facebook pages and one internet forum and have organized the data in excel forms.
-Made some further revision for the data collected by Lotte.
-Continued working on making an overall document of all the messages collected for next Monday’s meeting and further discussion. Friday, March
23rd, 2018
-Collected 18 data in total on Facebook pages and online forum, and organized the data in excel form.
-Have a brief discussion with my supervisor Eva about the quantitative analysis I will use for the project after asking the advice from Hanneke. -Have finished the overall document which includes all the messages (data) collected from 7 internet forum for weekly meeting and further discussion with Eva and Hanneke on Monday.
-Have finished making an overall excel form which include all the information from each excel form for each internet forum; because I made 7 separate excel forms for the 7 internet forums so that I would not feel confused; and the excel form will also be prepared for the weekly meeting and further discussion with Eva and Hanneke on Monday.
talked with about a joint project concerning my pursuing PhD.
-Calculated the percentages of each category to have a look at the data firstly and for further discussion with my supervisor on Monday.
Table 8:
Week Date Work done
Eight
Monday, March 26th, 2018
-Revised and checked carefully the overall document that includes all the data collected on 7 forums.
-Revised and checked carefully and organized the overall excel form which includes the information, coding of all the data collected on 7 forums.
-Counted and checked carefully the percentages of each category of all the data, and listed the six most frequent categories of questions.
-Negotiated the weekly meeting time and the time for the meeting with Hanneke.
-Had a meeting with Lotte during which I presented her all the data, coding, etc., and had a discussion together.
Wednesday, March 28th, 2018
-Had an important meeting with my supervisor and we discussed and confirmed the statistical methods to be used for quantitative analysis (15 categories were simplified to 8 final categories; categories below around 5 % were added to the 6 most categories, except for category 7 because of its uniqueness and category 15 because it is the combination of the 15 categories)
-Looked through the data and made a plan for all the statistics that I need to obtain
-Made preparations for the statistical calculation including making subgroups
Thursday, March 29th, 2018
-Counted the percentages of each category (15 categories) and uploaded this new version to Google document.
-Counted the percentages of the 8 final categories including the numbers and percentages of all the subcategories under the 8 final categories, and uploaded the part finished to Google document. -Formulated some questions in the process of calculating and analysis for discussion with my supervisor
results and statistics such pie chart
Table 9:
Week Date Work done
Nine
Tuesday, April 3rd, 2018
-In the process of quantitative analysis: calculated the percentage multilingual families with 1 child, 2 children, etc.; calculated the percentage of multilingual families with 2 languages, 3 languages, etc.; calculated the percentage of each family type, namely Father and mother, Single parent, etc.
-Organized the results of calculation in a clear manner and made notes about how to present the results.
Wednesday, April 4th, 2018
-Added age groups column to the overall excel form according to the information of ages of children in the overall excel form.
-Calculated the percentages of each age group. -Made a new excel form which only includes the variables for correlation analysis, namely the category, the number of children, the number of languages, family type and age groups.
-Used the new excel form to start and have done part of the correlation analysis.
-Had a short meeting with Lotte, during which I explained to her the final new categories, the quantitative methods that I am employing and so on, and updated her on anything I have done and discussed with my supervisor Eva.
Friday, April 6th, 2018 -Have learned how to make a Clustered Stacked Column Chart in Excel via watching Youtube video tutorials by self. Because we need to create this kind of chart to present the results of the quantitative reasoning.
-Continued dealing with the data in a quantitative way and organized what I have done and uploaded it on Google document.
-Have made some of the figures and charts to present the results that I have already obtained, and for discussions on Monday’s meeting with my supervisor Eva.
Table 10:
Week Date Work done
Ten
Monday, April 9th, 2018
-Had a meeting with my supervisor Eva and I presented the work of quantitative analysis that I had done. During the meeting, we discussed and analyzed the work that I had done and Eva proposed some further advice for the subsequent quantitative analysis.
-Made some changes according to the feedback from my supervisor in the meeting.
-Continued doing quantitative analysis. Wednesday,
April 11th, 2018
-Finished the quantitative analysis part of counting the frequencies and made corresponding pie charts for the results.
-Pondered over the quantitative analysis, and combined with the feedback and discussion content on Monday, I made correlation analysis in R (Chi-square).
-Plotted and made conclusions according to the figures and results obtained from R.
-Organized all the work for quantitative analysis in a folder in a coherent way and uploaded it in Google document for further discussion on Friday’s meeting with my supervisor Eva.
Friday, April 13th, 2018
-Checked carefully all the quantitative work that I had done before the meeting with Eva.
-Had meeting with Eva in which we discussed and analyzed the results together.
-Started making the academic poster about the project together with Eva.
-After the meeting, I continued working on the poster making.
Table 11:
Week Date Work done
Eleven
Monday, April 16th, 2018
-Worked with Eva about the poster: we interpreted results from the figures, decided the format/structure of the poster, and made a schedule of poster making.
-Worked on poster after the meeting. Thursday, April 19th,
2018
-Had a meeting with Lotte (a BA student who also has contributed to the project): we discussed together and almost finished the poster together.
-Made some further adjustment and changes of the poster and uploaded it in Google document for Friday’s meeting with Eva during which we will make the final version of the poster and make it ready to be printed.
Friday, April 20th, 2018 -Presented the poster Lotte and I had made to Eva, and made further changes and adjustment together.
-Finished the poster, and Eva talked with me about my pursuing PhD.
d. Link of the academic poster of this research
e. Link of the overall Excel form recording all the data collected in the internet forums and Facebook pages
f. Link of the overall document of all the messages collected in the internet forums and Facebook pages
