Misdinet: 3/13/11

Saturday, March 19, 2011

Research in ELT

Identification
Course : Research in English Language Teaching
Credits : 2
Lecturer : Misdi, S.Pd., M.Pd
Venues : Campus 3

Course description:
This course is intended as an introduction and preparation of research in English Language Teaching in which defining research process and establishing report in term of academic situation.

Learning objective:
By accomplishing the course, the students are able to understand the main principles in research and propose a research in English Language Teaching completed by a research report.

Learning methodologies:
Presentation and discussion

Meeting and Topics
1. What is research

2. Research process

3. Reviewing literature

4. Formulating research problem

5. Identifying variables

6. Constructing hypotheses

7. Research design

8. Selecting a study design

9. Selecting a method of data collection

10. Collecting data using attitudinal scales

11. Establishing the validity and reliability of a research instrument

12. Selecting a sample

13. Writing a research proposal

14. Considering ethical issues in data collection

15. Processing

16. Displaying data

17. Writing a research report

Evaluation
Midtest: 40 %

Finaltest: 40 %

Assignment: Group presentation and summary 20 %

Book:
Kumar, Ranjit .1999.Research Methodology.London:Sage Publication, Ltd.

Syllabus Teaching Listening and Speaking for Children

A SYLLABUS
Course name : Teaching Listening and Speaking for Children
Credits : 2
Lecturer : Misdi, S.Pd., M.Pd.

Course description
This course discusses main technique and approach to teach English in Children class. To design and to apply them in the classroom are essential to treat the students as professional English teacher.

Course objective
At the end of the course, the students are able to teach children Listening and Speaking of English as well as to evaluate it.

Learning Methodology
Discussion, exploration, performance (peer-teaching)

Media and sources
Internet, books, laptop, and in-focus

Meeting and topics
1. Introduction to Children Class Discussion
2. How to teach Children English Exploration
3. Lesson plan Group discussion
4. Peer-teaching Performance
5. Peer-teaching Performance
6. Peer-teaching Performance
7. Peer-teaching Performance
8. Mid-test Written test
9. Peer-teaching Performance
10. Peer-teaching Performance
11. Peer-teaching Performance
12. Peer-teaching Performance
13. Peer-teaching Performance
14. Peer-teaching Performance
15. Peer-teaching Performance
16. Final Assignment Classroom project

Evaluation
Mid-test 40%
Final Assignment 20 %
Performance 40%

Final Assignment
A group of 3 has to write a lesson plan to teach Listening or Speaking for Children supported by material and evaluation sheet. All must be typed in single space using a time new roman fond in A4 paper and must be collected during the final test.

Suggested readings:

Research

CATEGORIES OF RESEARCH 1. Historical Research The aim is to reconstruct the past event systematically and objectively by collecting, evaluating, verifying, synthesizing the evidences and the facts to draw a conclusion. e.g. Netherlands Administration in colonial situation in Java. 2. Descriptive Research The aim is to give deep description on the facts systematically and accurately of the specific object. e.g. survey on prices of goods. 3. Case Study Research The aim is to search the evidences and the background intensively of the specific object at the moment. e.g. the study of a drug abuser 4. Correlation Research The aim is to detect the correlation between the variables accordingly. e.g. the study of laziness and score of the students. 5. Comparative Research The aim is to find the fact of similarities and differences of the objects. e.g. managerial leadership of two or more institution. 6. Experimental Research The aim is to get the fact that one or more variable effect other variable using a/some treatments. e.g. classroom experiment note: there are, actually two kinds of experimental research, the true and quasi experimental research. 7. Action Research The aim is to find a solution or better condition of the situation by taking actions. e.g. trainer of trainer of teaching speaking in English class. EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH Research Design One group pre-test and post-test design O1 x O2 It is a custom that a-twice observation is applied here where first is before giving a treatment, and last is held after applying one. It is a pretest and a posttest in which (O1) is pre-test and (O2) is post-test. The X is a treatment. This kind of design is usually applied in preliminary research in order to get the suitable classes for doing an experiment since one of the conditions is having a valid experiment class-an experiment class should at the same level so that it can be judged fair when making comparison. The comparison is made between the experiment class and control class. Again learning technique of selecting the classes is important. How?