Graduate seminar paper for the Boston University course, SE523: Language and Communication Disorders. The teacher, Dr. Al Murphy, has annotated it: “This is outstanding. Too much to comment on. Let's set up a meeting to discuss it.”
Letter from Barry MacDonald to Maria Brisk, Director of the Bilingual Education Programme at Boston University, to set a date for her visit to Norwich in January 1980. Barry also discusses issues arising from the interviewing processes, notably the possible effects of audio-taping in inhibiting participation.
Bibliography of 16 pages for the final report. No names attached but, based on annotations, it seems to have been compiled by at least two of the researchers and no date but it seems to have been done in 1981 or 1982 as preparation for the final report and book.
The original proposal compiled after the preliminary visits to Boston in 1978. It includes an overview of research design, timescale and budget. This is the document on which Saville Kushner based his reflexive account of how the work actually unfolded, comparing actual timescales and evaluation activities with the proposed ones.
Field notes and reflections in which Barry MacDonald describes his preliminary visit to negotiate site access in October 1978 and describes meetings at the Ford Foundation and with Maria Brisk from Boston University. He also describes his first visit to Rafael Hernandez School and its neighbourhood, and also provides a profile of Maria Geddes, the school principal
Report to the funders of the project (the Ford Foundation) reporting on the progress made in writing up the report and proposing a dissemination strategy
Barry MacDonald's account of the language policy seminar at Albuquerque, describing the roles of different groups and highlighting the differences between discussions with policy makers in the UK and the USA.
