Part one : The issues, and research questions in linguistics. Jane Sunderland. Qualitative, or Quantitavie or both? Merged processes in linguistic researches. Jo Angouri. Part two : Quantitative and quantity research methods. Quantitative methods: concepts, structures and issues. Sebastian M. Rasinger. Arranging and processing your data: the nuts and bolts of quantitative analyses. Erez Levon, Corpus methods in linguistic. Paul Baker. Part three : Qualitative methods of research. Discourse approaches to text and talk. Judith Baxter. Linguistic ethnography. …show more content…
It is stated that it is preferable to talk to people to grasp what they mean, why they do certain things rather than quantitatively try out and simply hypothesize. Some of the usual criticisms aligned with structured interviews which came into being in the first place to guarantee objectivity of the interviewer . Carey Jewitt and Jeff Bezemer express how linguistic studies approach multimodality; the anticipation of speech, writing, images, gaze, gestures,...etc, in the meaning creation. the social semiotic approach to multimodality, in which it is; the extension of social understanding of language and its concepts to multiple type of communication and depictions used in a culture, assuming that the making of meaning resources are always socially created . Also, modes illustrates a common cultural sense of a equipement of resources within a community before attempting on to an in-depth conversation of collecting ways and multimodal data analyzing with two short explanation : the first one is the use of various modes in classroom interaction; and the second one is
‘Employing a qualitative methodology, underpinned by a constructivist world view, has provided the means to generate rich, deep and contextualised understandings of the research issue, and an appreciation of the socially constructed and experienced realities of the participants.’ (Highfield 2012)
Mother Tongue Observational Analysis In the essay, Mother Tongue, by Amy Tan she uses words to do much more than just capture the reader’s attention. Tan not only recalls the past; she vividly includes the reader in her observations creating interest. In the beginning of her essay Tan states these very words, “I am not a scholar of English or literature.”
The author’s main argument in “Literacy, Discourse, and Linguistics” is that the focus of literacy studies or applied linguistics should be social practices (Discourse) rather than language. Many people tend to think of language as ‘perfect grammar’, but language is about what you say, how you say it, what you are, and do when you say something. Gee elaborates on this claim by describing two responses of women in an interview that each show different dialect. Overall, the saying-doing-being-valuing-believing combinations can be simplified as Discourse. Discourse is an identity kit, or different ways in which one can be in the world. People acquire a primary discourse early in life by interacting with family and those closer to them; this becomes
Research methods should contain research questions and hypothesis, present a research design, discuss participants, instruments used, the procedure, a data analysis plan, and the sample size justification (Anon., n.d.). The research design methods should be discussed, such as whether it was quantitative, qualitative, or mixed. The quantitative method assesses the participant responses on a measure. The qualitative method is a semi-structured interview that gets transcribed. The mixed method is a mix of the quantitative and the qualitative methods.
Compare and contrast quantitative and qualitative methods on each of the elements listed. Please use scholarly, academic literature to support your response.
Research contrasts in various perspectives yet they do have a few shared characteristics. Numerous aspects are included in conducting research. One extremely fundamental component is gathering data. The information can be assembled from various sources, like the hotels, journals related to the particular theme, documents from online study and surveys.
Qualitative and Quantitative study designs both can be beneficial in research design. They both provide valuable options for researchers in the field. These techniques can either be used separately in a research study or they can be combined to achieve maximum information. This paper will define the terms qualitative and quantitative; describe the similarities and differences between each; discuss how qualitative and/or quantitative research designs or techniques could be used in the evaluation of my proposed research; and discuss why linking analysis to study design is important.
In the present essay, we have seen how linguistic ethnographers Blommaert and Borba conceptualize ethnographic research in their two works, what function language had in the observed, situated interactions and how it was approached to further investigate larger frameworks. Besides the more technical aspects, we have seen that in both accounts, language plays a crucial role in the reproduction of inequality and some sociologic and ethnographic concepts, when applied to observation of linguistic forms, can help to grasp the larger structures regimenting institutional practices. 2 Source : http://www. Colorado.
In the introduction, the author discussed the background and research that concerned about the beliefs and practices of English language
Part three : Qualitative methods of research. Discourse approaches to text and talk. Judith Baxter. Linguistic ethnography. Angela Creese. Considerable interviews and focus groups. Lia Litosseliti ,Nigel Edley,.
According to Creswell (2015a) “sampling in mixed methods research refers to the procedures for selecting participants (and sites) in both quantitative and qualitative research and to the sampling strategies employed with each of the designs” (p. 75). Creswell defines sampling procedure in mixed methods in relation to two central issues which are: 1) how to select a valid sample size for both quantitative and qualitative research designs in relation to the research question asked, and 2) most importantly, how to integrate quantitative and qualitative results in relation to the used mixed methods designed used for the research. As previously mentioned, an explanatory sequential mixed methods research design was selected to investigate vocabulary strategies used among Tuareg EFL learners in the Libya classroom. The sampling procedures pertaining to the selected design and the research questions for both quantitative and qualitative phases of the study are explained in detail in the following section.
It offers a distinctive perspective on linguistic anthropology as well as cultural anthropology as a whole. The main idea of this approach is to develop theories and techniques related to the analysis of meaningful behavior in actual situations. Discursive practice concerns discourse in four ways. First one it is affirmed that social experiences are built in a linguistic and discursive way. The second one is that discourse is bounded to contexts. The third one is that discourse regarded as social practice. The last one that the grasping the meaning is negotiable in interaction instead of not being permanent absent in our
According to Hugh Trappes-Lomax (2004), discourse analysis is the study of language that is viewed communicatively or the study of communication that is viewed linguistically. Under the discourse analysis, the analysts analyse the concepts of “language in use, the language above or beyond the sentence, language as meaning in interaction, and language in situational and cultural context”. By carrying out the discourse analysis, the analysts seek to explore the relation that exists between the various elements that are present in the situation; such as the participants of the conversation, the cultural backgrounds of the participants, the relationship between the participants, the setting of the conversation/discourse, the situation and the linguistic choices that are made in the process of the discourse (Dijk, 1995). Though discourse analysis cannot be tied down to a single definition, some of the most prominent ones are as follows;
This essay critically analyses the utilization of different research approaches when answering a clinical question. The assigned clinical issue discussed in this essay is the mandated nurse-to-patient ratios in Queensland hospitals will improve patient outcomes.
Integration is the stage(s) where the quantitative and qualitative methods are mixed or integrated in the research process (Greene, Caracelli, & Graham, 1989; Tashakkori & Teddlie, 1998; Creswell et al., 2003). Mixing can occur at the beginning stage of the study when the researcher is formulating the quantitative and qualitative research (Teddlie & Tashakkori, 2003), and integration can be done at the interpretation stage of the quantitative and qualitative results (Onwuegbuzie & Teddlie, 2003). The quantitative and qualitative phases are connected (Hanson et al., 2005) after data analysis in the first phase to guide the data collection in the second phase. For the sequential explanatory study, I will connect the quantitative and qualitative phase during the intermediate stage in the research process. That is, I will select participants for the qualitative phone interview from those who responded to the survey in the first phase (Creswell et al., 2003).