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This file contains the role-play instructions provided to the speakers in the transcripts in role-play.transcript and chinese-role-play.trans BACKGROUND INFO (for all participants) Imagine you are a teacher in a high school or junior high. You have received a request from the principal to advise him on a question concerning the academic career of one of your students. The parents of this student named Lee have made it clear to the principal that they believe Lee to be of superior intelligence and that he should be placed in an accelerated college-prep program for the coming year. They contend that their child's true abilities are being stifled in the regular classes and that his grades do not reflect his real intellectual talents. The principal wants to hear your point of view on the advisability of complying with the wishes of the parents. You and several of your colleagues have been called to the principal's office to discuss this matter. Each of you has Lee in one or . . .
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Transcript collected & transcribed by: John Bro Program in Linguistics 112 Anderson Hall Univ. Florida Gainesville FL This transcript may be freely used for academic and research purposes. Any use for publication must credit John Bro. Note: items surrounded by "^" = prominent/stressed. "[%...%]" = comments by transcriber %hf% = marked high-falling contour vertical bars "|" = overlapping speech slash "/" = short pause, more slashes =longer Speaker P plays the "principal" Other speakers play "teachers" (and are graduate students in Education). Only Speaker N is female. ---------------------------------------------------------------- American Role-play Group Oct 30, 1987 ---------------------------------------------------------------- 001 P: Well ^thanks^ for staying after ^school^ today um / you know that ^Ralph's pa . . .
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Collected and transcribed by John H. Bro Program in Linguistics University of Florida Gainesville, FL 32601 This document may be freely used for academic and research purposes with the only stipulation that I be properly cited as the source. =============================================================== Transcript of Chinese Group Discussion October 15, 1987 This is the transcript of a discussion group of Chinese speaking graduate students in the department of Education at the University of Florida. They are role-playing teachers in conference with their principal to discuss the future of "Lee", their student. They were aware that they were being taped since the recorder was in front of them. The person playing the principal has lived in the US for three years, Speaker A two years; speaker B for six; speakers C and D each for one. A parallel roleplay by native speakers of English is also available. ============================================== . . .