SLR (Hanyang)

Second Language Research

Hanyang University TESOL

1 Teaching research skills & research writing

• Differences between academic & general writing
• Understanding research based articles

1.1 Quantitative research and statistics concepts

• Hypotheses
• Some basics of experimental and quantitative design
• Intro to research designs
• Understanding variables
• Understanding stastistics
• Comparing groups: ANOVAs and t-tests
• Correlation
• Factor analysis

1.2 Teaching & understanding qualitative research

• Intro to qualitative research
• Writing and corpus studies

1.3 Research ethics, plagiarism, and source use

• Misusing statistics
• Research ethics - notes and famous cases
• Research ethics - handout
• Research ethics - problematic scenarios [for class discussion]
• Plagiarism exercise #1 [exercise based on a popular source]
• Plagiarism exercise #2 [based on an academic article]
• Referencing and citations in APA format
• Rewording - paraphrasing and summarizing