For this project, the first challenge I met is when I tried to conduct my first intervention.
During the preparation phase, I post the poster and messages on social media. And I successfully got 46 people signed up for the activity. However, when the first class started, only 12 people participate. So we only had one class for these participants. To solve this challenge, I asked some of the participants about there feelings and feedback of this activity. Most of them thought the instruction and advise given by the teacher is super effective and helpful for she has introduced several methods of language improving and instructed students to do the intensive reading step by step. However, some of them thought this progress may not be suitable for all participants with different level of English. The progress of English improvement may take a long time of period. It needs students’ active motivation and perseverance of working. Most of the progress related to the students themselves. Also, different circumstance has different solution of the improving, which lead to the non-effectiveness of this kind of lecture. Also, people who want to attend the class have different requires, vary from language improving, test skills, finding jobs abroad, etc. I tried to analyse what is this caused by:
1.The objectives of the course were not clear enough.
2.Lack of motivation and constraints to make sure most people attend.
3.The effectiveness of the class is uncertain.
Then I tried to solve this challenge in my second intervention. I decided to choose an accurate topic to talk about, which should be more practical and effective in a one-time activity. Therefore, I collect the preference and opinion from the participants and other stakeholders. I also did a small questionnaire and let them choose from several options.
The second challenge is how to make sure the security of people getting connection on this platform maybe difficult to ensure. I need to do more research about other similar platforms.
Also, Richard reminded me of thinking about my research question again. I need to define what is cultural adaptation. Because for different people, cultural adaptation have different acceptance level. So if I want to have a better understanding of this question, my project need to find out different solution for different people.