Erciyes University - Info Package

Course unit title	Level of course unit	Course unit code	Type of course unit	Semester of course unit	Local credit	ECTS credit	Syllabus
RESEARCH TOPICS IN APPLIED LINGUISTICS	Second cycle	ELAN650		1	7.00	7.00	Print

Description of course unit

Prerequisites and course requisities	-
Language of instruction	English
Coordinator	Assist. Prof. Seniye Vural
Lecturer(s)	Assist. Prof. Arif Bakla
Teaching assitant(s)	-
Mode of delivery	distance learning
Course objective	To equip the participants with skills essential for doing independent research in ELT
Course description	Research issues within the field of ELT

Course contents

1	This course focuses on the nature of how to carry out quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods research in ELT.
2	The students are required to read key chapters assigned each week and do the eight tasks that will help them put into practice what they learn.
3	The basic aim of this class is to help novice researchers striving to be independent researchers learn the craft of doing research in education.
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Learning outcomes of the course unit

1	Follow the steps involved in doing independent research in ELT
2	Define basic research related terminology without difficulty
3	Compare and contrast quantitative and qualitative research paradigms
4	Construct a survey instrument and validate it
5	Use statistical procedures by using SPSS for validating surveys
6	Carry out normality test
7	Put into practice the working knowledge of sampling strategies in quantitative and qualitative research
8	Conduct research in ethically appropriate ways
9	Write a research report by following the conventions of scientific writing
10	Gain basic knowledge of types of mixed methods research

*Contribution level of the course unit to the key learning outcomes

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Number of stars refer to level of contribution from 1 (the least) to 5 (the most)

Planned learning activities, teaching methods and ECTS work load

	Quantity	Time (hour)	Quantity*Time (hour)
Lectures (face to face teaching)	15	3	45
Study hours out of classroom (study before and after the class)	15	2	30
Homework	15	2	30
Presentation / seminar	2	2	4
Quiz	0	0	0
Preparation for midterm exams	1	10	10
Midterm exams	1	5	5
Project (term paper)	1	5	5
Laboratuar	0	0	0
Field study	0	0	0
Preparation for final exam	1	0	0
Final exam	1	6	6
Research	1	20	20
Total work load			155
ECTS			6.00

Assessment methods and criteria

Evaluation during semester	Quantity	Percentage
Midterm exam	1	50
Quiz	0	0
Homework	0	0
Semester total		50
Contribution ratio of evaluation during semester to success		50
Contribution ratio of final exam to success		50
General total		100

Recommended and required reading

Textbook	Creswell, J. W. (2002). Educational research: Planning, Conducting, and Evaluating Quantitative and Qualitative Research (4th ed.). Boston, MA: Pearson Education.
Additional references	The American Psychological Association. (2009). The publication manual the American Psychological Association (6th ed.). Bakla, A., Çekiç, A., and Köksal, O. (2013). Web-based surveys in educational research. International Journal of Academic Research Part B, 5(1), 5-13. doi: 10.7813/2075-4124.2013/5-1/B.1 Bazeley, P. & Jackson, K. (2013). Qualitative data analysis with NVivo (2nd ed.). Los Angeles, LA: Sage. Creswell, J. W., & Plano Clark, V. L. (2013). Designing and conducting mixed methods research (2nd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. Dörnyei, Z., & Taguchi, T. (2010). Questionnaires in second language research: Construction, administration, and processing (2nd ed.). London: Routledge. Wallwork, A. (2011). English for writing research papers. London: Springer.

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