Master's seminar II 2300-GPTE-OSM-I/2
-current research studies into teaching English to young learners in bilingual and instructed contexts
-overview of language teacher studies (teacher beliefs, identities, cognition)
-revision of research methods and techniques in different research traditions (psychometrics, classroom interaction, classroom discourse, ethnography and interpretive methods)
-ethics in researching children
-individual areas of student research
-principles of planning research projects and their reports (intro, literature review, methods, data and findings, conclusions)
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Assessment criteria
- 2 absences allowed in a semester
- written assignments: literature review, project outline, annotated bibliography, subsequent thesis chapters
- project presentations
Bibliography
Freeman, D. 1998. Doing Teacher Research. Boston: Heinle.
Dorneyei, Z. 2007. Research Methods in Applied Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Wallace, M.J. 1997. Action Research for Language Teachers. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Szpotowicz, M. 2008. Second Language Processes in Lower Primary Children. Warszawa: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego.
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