Minutes for Friday 18th October

Our third meeting for our RSEL project was help on 18th October between the times of 10:30 and 11:30. Firstly, we had a discussion regarding further refining our question, in light of Alison's comment on our minutes for last week. However, our main focus for today was redrafting our proposal and posting it on the blog. 

As previously stated, the first item on our agenda was to refine our question and we decided that as a group we would do this by using a certain age demographic. It was first suggested that the age range we should focus on is 3-6 years. However, after further discussion we decided that it would be more effective if the age range was 2-5 years. The reason we felt this age range would be more appropriate is because generally most theorists focus on language acquisition between 0 and 60 months. We discussed how after this age children stop acquiring as much language and begin to learn. Furthermore, at the age of 2, a child can really start to engage with the programmes they are watching. 

After last weeks meeting, Hannah went away and composed a detailed draft of our proposal. This week, we thought it would be appropriate to get together as a group and redraft the proposal so we could all contribute our own ideas before we submitted it. The first thing we decided to do was to explain in greater detail why we chose our question and in particular why we chose the age range of 2-5. Furthermore, we also went on to go into more detail on how we will conduct our research project, through the methodology. On our draft proposal it was suggested that we will analyse 'The Fimbles' as our fifth programme but after discussion it was decided instead that we would analyse 'Rosie and Jim'. Another thing we took into consideration from Alison's feedback is to properly reference the readings that Jodie found after the second meeting,which we have included in our proposal methodology. Lastly, we discussed certain data protection laws that we will need to consider when conducting our research and how we will go about keeping within the guidelines of these laws.

Finally, we realised that we have not yet exported our blog, which in an important part of the project. Therefore, Jodie agreed to look into doing this for next week.

Agenda for next meeting: Friday 25th October:

• Begin to gather data from the programmes that we are researching
• Gather further readings regarding Media and Child Directed Speech