Course : Research Method
Code : ING
Credit :
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Course description
This course is designed to introduce students to theoretical and practical aspects of doing research in language and
linguistic studies. This course will provide theoretical, practical and hands on experience in dealing with the work of
researching language including selecting and formulating research problems and hypothesis, developing research
designs and data collection instruments, analyzing data and interpreting the results, and developing research report.
Schedule
Session Topics Assignment
1 Course overview
2 The nature and types of research List of types of research from various
sources
3 Researching language Excerpt of chapter 1 (Wray, [Link].)
4 Choosing an area and formulating research problems Formulating self-chosen problems
5–7 Sample studies in various areas of language: structure Summary of relevant sources
and meaning, styles in texts, conversation analysis,
first and second language acquisition, language and
gender, historical linguistics, sociolinguistics, and
psycholinguistics
8 Midterm test
9 – 12 Developing research designs: experimental, Outline of a research design
ethnography, case study, introspective, elicitation,
discourse analysis.
13 Developing data collection instruments Outlining self-chosen instrument
14 Developing research proposal Developing a research proposal
15 Developing research report Developing a research report
16 Final term test
References:
Main
Hatch, E. and H. Farhady. 1981. Research Design and Statistics for Applied Linguistics. Rowley: Newbury House
Publishers. Inc.
Nunan, D. 1992. Research Methods in Language Learning. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Sinclair, J. McH. and R.M. Coulthard. 1975. Towards All Analysis of Discourse: The English Used by Teachers and
Pupils. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Suherdi, Didi. In press. Discourse Analysis in Classroom Research.
Wray, A., K. Trott and A. Bloomer. 1998. Projects in Linguistics: A Practical Guide to Researching Language. London:
Arnold.
