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Dr. Codruta Gosa
codrutagosa@yahoo.co.uk
codruta.gosa@e-uvt.ro
Our course
• Introductory concepts
• Ethics in research
• The research proposal
• Quantitative research: logic, methodology,
methods, analysis
• Qualitative research: logic, methodology,
methods
• Data analysis in qualitative research
• The research report
Still, what is research?
In the most profound sense, research simply
means trying to find answers to questions…to
learn more about the world around us. …Or in
short, research is disciplined inquiry. (Dörnyei,
2007)
Key words
• Rigorous
• Systematic
▫ Through appropriate
Research question(s)
Research method(s)
Research is Question(s) driven
They are:
• Positivism versus interpretivism
• Quantitative versus qualitative
Quantitative vs. qualitative
Survey Case study
Bird’s eye view Worm’s eye view
Large amount of data Small amount of data
Numerical and statistical Word-based analyses
analyses
Generalisable Non-genearalisable
Test hypotheses Exploratory
Deductive Inductive
Etic Emic
Think…
• Re-visit your overarching research question
• What will be your corpus?
▫ Respondents-based?
▫ Document/texts-based?
▫ A combination?
• What approach will you use:
▫ Quantitative?
▫ Qualitative?
▫ Both?
• What methods will you employ?
▫ Survey?
▫ (Quasi) Experiment?
▫ Case study?
References
Dörnyei, Z, 2007: Research Methods in Applied
Linguistics, Oxford: Oxford University Press
Robson, C. 2002.: Real World Research; A Resource
for Social Scientists and Practitioner-Researchers,
(2nd ed)Oxford: Blackwell