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Now that I have all my data collected (finally!) I am going to start identifying the properties and dimensions from each one of my data collection tools in order to create my categories. According to Corbin ans Strauss (1999) properties are "characteristics or components of an object, event or action The characteristics give specificity to and define an object, event or action". Dimensions are the "variations of a property along a range".
To start finding the categories, I will start by open coding my transcripts and I will use the following conventions in order to identify progress and stagnation trends. In terms of students producing accurate full-length uttereances I will use the green highlighter, if students used incorrect accuracy and they did not do any correction I will use the red highlighter. Students who self- correct will use the yellow highlighter, the ones who peer-correct or assist partners to correct accuracy will use the orange highligter and finally, all those errors that indicate salient features that are not being researched as for this project but are likely to become further future research topics are going to be highlighted in pink.
