Misdinet: 6/5/11

Friday, June 10, 2011

Research in ELT: Obtain Primary Sources

Obtain Primary Sources
(Research Journals)

Dear my students.
What makes me to have big efforts in learning is your interest in reading. This is not the latest alert for you. I will do it again and again. To become a good researcher is to be a good reader. be familiar with research journals ( I am, too), reports, and text book since those are our friends. See you in my next class and make me happy abut your work.

Find 10 journal articles, read them, and then take this note to make review for each. It will guide you to write good summary. You may contact me either via hand phone or web.

Problem: ……………………………………………………………………………………………….
(Rewrite the question had been tested here)

Hypothesis: ……………………………………………………………………………………………
(Rewrite the hypothesis had been tested here)

Methodologies/Procedures: ……………………………………………………………………
(Copy the subject of the study/ participants, procedure, instrument here)

Findings: …………………………………………………………………………………………………..
(Summarize the findings-the fact and interpretation (This is the answer of the question/hypothesis here)

After you summarize your research articles above, don't forget to write the bibliographies on your daily notes. This is as a reading track.

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?