Observe and Interview
Assignment 02: Exploring language diversity where you live
Compiled by Hannelie Millar – student 49498843
Instructions:
Task 1: Observe your community
• Go out into the community where you live for one or two afternoons or evenings. For an example, we put a photo from the Bree taxi rank in Johannesburg.
• Observe what you see around you. o Who is talking with whom? o What language are they using? o Why do they use one language or another?
• Why do you think people are acting the way they do? Try to come up with some reasons, just by observing what is happening around you.
Task 2: Interview one of the members who you have observed
• Now choose one of the people who are around you and ask their permission to do a short interview
• Ask them a few questions about their language background
• Also ask them to explain why they used a particular language, and why did they change.
Write up your observations and your interview in a written document and submit it as Assignment 02. You can use the Assignment system to submit and upload your written document.
Submission of Task 1 Setting
Place: Public Gym
Duration: 2 hours
Timing: 8AM to 9AM weekdays (on 2 occasions) Findings
Who is present?
As the wife of an avid gym member, I decided to join my husband on two of his training sessions. Before doing so, I spent a bit of time thinking what profile I expect to see there; my list was as follows:
- More Middle aged to older generations
- Less younger adults (may include ‘Stay @ Home Moms’ and possibly some executive/ professional men)
- Students
- No children
- Admittedly I didn’t give race a thought. My observations proved the following realities, some quite different to what I had expected. - More Older generation and retired folk Wrong; in a group of approximately 40 people, I would say only 20% were in the age groups of 50 to 80 years old. All were from the Afrikaans or English speaking white population and made up more women than men.A smaller group than I would
Compiled by Hannelie Millar – student 49498843
Instructions:
Task 1: Observe your community
• Go out into the community where you live for one or two afternoons or evenings. For an example, we put a photo from the Bree taxi rank in Johannesburg.
• Observe what you see around you. o Who is talking with whom? o What language are they using? o Why do they use one language or another?
• Why do you think people are acting the way they do? Try to come up with some reasons, just by observing what is happening around you.
Task 2: Interview one of the members who you have observed
• Now choose one of the people who are around you and ask their permission to do a short interview
• Ask them a few questions about their language background
• Also ask them to explain why they used a particular language, and why did they change.
Write up your observations and your interview in a written document and submit it as Assignment 02. You can use the Assignment system to submit and upload your written document.
Submission of Task 1 Setting
Place: Public Gym
Duration: 2 hours
Timing: 8AM to 9AM weekdays (on 2 occasions) Findings
Who is present?
As the wife of an avid gym member, I decided to join my husband on two of his training sessions. Before doing so, I spent a bit of time thinking what profile I expect to see there; my list was as follows:
- More Middle aged to older generations
- Less younger adults (may include ‘Stay @ Home Moms’ and possibly some executive/ professional men)
- Students
- No children
- Admittedly I didn’t give race a thought. My observations proved the following realities, some quite different to what I had expected. - More Older generation and retired folk Wrong; in a group of approximately 40 people, I would say only 20% were in the age groups of 50 to 80 years old. All were from the Afrikaans or English speaking white population and made up more women than men.A smaller group than I would