2. A bit of background for this study
How the learner builds his/her own
modus operandi
from the viewpoint of chance-seeking
instrumentalization
agenda setting
forward-looking
tentative
appropriative
sense-making
3. Autoethnography: how and why
Autoethnography in a nutshell
“Auto-ethnographers-as-authors frame their accounts with personal
reflexive views of the self. Their ethnographic data are situated within their
personal experience and sense making. They themselves form part of the
representational processes in which they are engaging and are part of the
story they are telling.” (Atkinson, Coffey, and Delamont (2003)
Why is it salient for chance-seeking?
Chance-seeking as as first-hand experience
Accessibility
Basis for formulating more precise research questions and objectives
4. Rahvaülikool, Tartu
100% traditional course
Estonian course for beginners
Data collected refer to the first 9 weeks
23 sept-18 dec
60 contact hours, twice a week
No final test
5. What does a learner as a chance-seeker know (or
assume to know) before he go about learning a
new language?
9. Do this work for me? How? How do I know it?
At the moment I don’t and can’t know it
10. What I knew before I started
Being not just a passenger
The sense of being overwhelmed: too many
unfamiliar words
Hoping to get better - the need for a change
11. ...when life gives you lemon, make lemonade.
or...make use of whatever comes in handy
16. Why and when do I take pictures? Does that
respond to a particular “logic”?
Chance encounters resonate with some
previous habits, interests, etc.. no matter how
relevant they are and with no foresight into the
future
25. One thing leads to another...
Once a new habit has emerged, it may
be purposefully adopted in other cases
to make chance-seeking a bit less
“blind”
43. Some conclusions to draw
The one who never explores things for himself never appropriate
What one can do is always subordinated to pre-existing resources. Never the
other way around.
Complex ecologies provide more chance encounters
Resonation provides the first basis for experiencing meaningfulness
Previous habits/skills/knowledge are co-opted via resonating with chance
encounters for creating new habits/skills/knowledge
Emergence of more purposeful strategies for habit formation in due course
45. Some conclusions to draw
The one who never tries never learns
What one can do is always subordinated to pre-existing resources. Never the
other way around.
Complex environments provide more chance encounters
Resonation provides the first basis for experiencing meaningfulness
Previous habits/skills/knowledge are co-opted via resonating with chance
encounters for creating new habits/skills/knowledge
Emergence of more purposeful strategies for habit formation in due course
Editor's Notes
no technical issue....concerns
Whatever attracts my attention for whatever reasons
constraint!
Whatever attracts my attention for whatever reasons
traditional exercises are mostly de-contextualized, therefore boring
something attracted my attention - reverse process
