In sport system, if there is a question if communities of practice can be formed in sports or not, after the research, the answer would be yes since there are members within each community and they are interacting to each other which then will automatically form some source of communities of practice, furthermore one of the communities of practice can be a larger and some can be smallers, it depends on the members who are in more than one communities of practice and they also play a big enough role in both of them to make an affect to others that involved. Wegner also mentioned that “there are well established differences between the roles of each group in sport (coaches, officials, parents, administrators). Each of these groups is more inclined to form their own CoP rather than forming one big CoP.
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(Culver, 2008)” These sentences explained that even though within only one team, there would always be more than one communities of practice formed, in this case they are an athlete communities of practice and coach communties of practice. Athletes will be the group of people that do the the actual performance and competing, but the coaches they will be taking care more in the part of coaching, guiding, teaching, and leading the team as a whole (Culver, 2008). In the part of the methods, I used some of the basic method of observation in an order to collect good enough data for my research. My focus group in this observation is the group of four new guys that just joined Michigan Technological University tennis team in the fall of 2015. It is not that hard for me to get close to them because we have practice from 4pm to 6pm on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday and 4pm to 7.30pm on Tuesday and Thursday, so I basically get to spend a good amount of my time with them during each day at the university. Furthermore during spring break of 2016, we traveled down to Hilton head in South Carolina for one of the tennis festival tournament, which allowed me to be very close to the new guys at all time, I basically spent all day every day with all four of them. The important thing that I kept in mind at all time is that I don’t want anyone of them to know that I am doing the observation on how they use the language among all of us as a team, so that I can get some real data and result which is more accurate than those fake ones that I might get from them if I mentioned about the project to them. At the end of each day I basically came back to my room and wrote down some interesting speeches or words the new guys used in the notebook. In the part of data collecting, as I mentioned in the earlier paragraph that I spend a lot of time with the new guys both during the day in their normal lives and when they are on tennis court, so that is also why I chose to separated the focus of my observation into two situations: on court observation and off the court observation. First talking about their uses of English on the court, this part will consist of both in practice and while they are playing matches. Here are some of the examples from my data; •Since the new guys are international students, sometimes I heard words that I couldn’t understand, so I assumed those words are from foreign languages. The new guys they tend to automatically use their languages swear words when they are not happy with the situation they are dealing with or decide to use it when they don’t want anyone to know what are they talking about. That is very contrast to me or some other older guys in the team, since the older guys tend to use mostly English when we are on court, no matter what kind of the situation we are dealing with we still have English as the first language to pop up on our minds. •There are
(Culver, 2008)” These sentences explained that even though within only one team, there would always be more than one communities of practice formed, in this case they are an athlete communities of practice and coach communties of practice. Athletes will be the group of people that do the the actual performance and competing, but the coaches they will be taking care more in the part of coaching, guiding, teaching, and leading the team as a whole (Culver, 2008). In the part of the methods, I used some of the basic method of observation in an order to collect good enough data for my research. My focus group in this observation is the group of four new guys that just joined Michigan Technological University tennis team in the fall of 2015. It is not that hard for me to get close to them because we have practice from 4pm to 6pm on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday and 4pm to 7.30pm on Tuesday and Thursday, so I basically get to spend a good amount of my time with them during each day at the university. Furthermore during spring break of 2016, we traveled down to Hilton head in South Carolina for one of the tennis festival tournament, which allowed me to be very close to the new guys at all time, I basically spent all day every day with all four of them. The important thing that I kept in mind at all time is that I don’t want anyone of them to know that I am doing the observation on how they use the language among all of us as a team, so that I can get some real data and result which is more accurate than those fake ones that I might get from them if I mentioned about the project to them. At the end of each day I basically came back to my room and wrote down some interesting speeches or words the new guys used in the notebook. In the part of data collecting, as I mentioned in the earlier paragraph that I spend a lot of time with the new guys both during the day in their normal lives and when they are on tennis court, so that is also why I chose to separated the focus of my observation into two situations: on court observation and off the court observation. First talking about their uses of English on the court, this part will consist of both in practice and while they are playing matches. Here are some of the examples from my data; •Since the new guys are international students, sometimes I heard words that I couldn’t understand, so I assumed those words are from foreign languages. The new guys they tend to automatically use their languages swear words when they are not happy with the situation they are dealing with or decide to use it when they don’t want anyone to know what are they talking about. That is very contrast to me or some other older guys in the team, since the older guys tend to use mostly English when we are on court, no matter what kind of the situation we are dealing with we still have English as the first language to pop up on our minds. •There are