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| IDEZ5040 | Research Methods in Applied Linguistics | 3+0+0 | ECTS:8 | | Year / Semester | Fall Semester | | Level of Course | Second Cycle | | Status | Compulsory | | Department | DEPARTMENT of WESTERN LANGUAGES and LITERATURE | | Prerequisites and co-requisites | None | | Mode of Delivery | Face to face | | Contact Hours | 14 weeks - 3 hours of lectures per week | | Lecturer | -- | | Co-Lecturer | A. Kasım VARLI | | Language of instruction | | | Professional practise ( internship ) | None | | | | The aim of the course: | | Objectives of the CourseThe primary goals of this course are as follows: 1. to offer a comprehensive treatment of scientific approach within the context of theory, research and practice2. to familiarize you with the whole range of methods currently used in social sciences, in particular in Applied Linguistics3. to increase your awareness of the pitfalls of undertaking a research4. to familiarize you with data collecting, coding, analyzing and presenting techniques5. to enable you to have an appreciation of the basic principles of research design, and also to read and analyze published studies |
| Programme Outcomes | CTPO | TOA | | Upon successful completion of the course, the students will be able to : | | | | PO - 1 : | produce an acceptable research question and common research methods. | 12,14,15,16,17 | 1,6 | | PO - 2 : | analyze and synthesize liiteraure review for a given topic Students will be able to differentiate between qualitative and quantitative research. | 4,13,14,15,18 | 1,6 | | PO - 3 : | decide what method best suits a particular research question. | 12,14,16,18,19 | 1,6 | | PO - 4 : | undertake /embark on a research ( small scale. | 12,15,16,17,18 | 1,6 | | PO - 5 : | carry out an action research / or experimental research. | 13,16,17,18 | 1,6 | | CTPO : Contribution to programme outcomes, TOA :Type of assessment (1: written exam, 2: Oral exam, 3: Homework assignment, 4: Laboratory exercise/exam, 5: Seminar / presentation, 6: Term paper), PO : Learning Outcome | | |
| What is research?Defining researchable topics. Choosing a topic. Guidelines for topic selection. Generating researchable questions. Making key research questions. Planning your research. Reviewing the literature. What is science? What is scientific? The aims of social science. Approaches to knowledge, Basic assumption of science. What is research? The nature of research, Reasons for researching, originality in research. Ethical Principles. Descriptive ?Associational. Large-scale-small-scale research. Qualitative-quantitativeCross-sectional longitudinal-longitudinal research. Research variables, hypotheses, sampling. Experimental Research (quasi-experiment) Action Research. Historical Research. Documentary Analysis. Ethnographic Style. Survey Research. Questionnaire Design Interviewing Observation Checklist Scaling Methods Triangulation. Qualitative research vs. quantitative research. Describing and Analyzing Dat |
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| Course Syllabus | | Week | Subject | Related Notes / Files | | Week 1 | Thinking about research
What is science? What is scientific? The aims of social science
Approaches to knowledge, Basic assumptions of science
What is research The nature of research, Reasons for researching, originality in research
| | | Week 2 | Guidelines for topic selection, Generating researchable questions
Making key research questions, Planning your research, | | | Week 3 | Ethics in Research, Ethical Principles
| | | Week 4 | Large-scale-small-scale research ,Cross-sectional,longitudinal research
| | | Week 5 | Research variables, hypotheses, sampling | | | Week 6 | Action Research
| | | Week 7 | Case Studies
| | | Week 8 | Mid-term exam | | | Week 9 | Documentary Analysis | | | Week 10 | Survey Research
Questionnaire Design
Interviewing
| | | Week 11 | quantitative research | | | Week 12 | Qualitative research | | | Week 13 | Reviewing literature | | | Week 14 | Observation
Checklist | | | Week 15 | Analyzing and Presenting Data | | | Week 16 | End-of-term exam | | | |
| 1 | Hatch, E & Lazaraton, A.1991; The Research Manual Design and Statistics for Applied Linguistics, Newebury House, New York | | | |
| 1 | Bryman, A. & Cramer, D. 1997; Quantitative Data Analysis with SPSS for Windows, Routledge, London. | | | |
| Method of Assessment | | Type of assessment | Week No | Date | Duration (hours) | Weight (%) | | Mid-term exam | 8 | 12/11/2009 | 2 | 30 | | Project | 14 | 23/12/2009 | 6 | 20 | | End-of-term exam | 16 | 14/01/2010 | 2 | 50 | | |
| Student Work Load and its Distribution | | Type of work | Duration (hours pw) | No of weeks / Number of activity | Hours in total per term | | Yüz yüze eğitim | 3 | 14 | 42 | | Arasınav için hazırlık | 12 | 6 | 72 | | Arasınav | 2 | 1 | 2 | | Proje | 10 | 1 | 10 | | Dönem sonu sınavı için hazırlık | 10 | 7 | 70 | | Dönem sonu sınavı | 2 | 7 | 14 | | Total work load | | | 210 |
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