NORTHWESTERN AGUSAN COLLEGES

Bay View Hill, Nasipit, Agusan del Norte

COLLEGE DEPARTMENT

Language research
(ELT 210)
Hello!
AL PATRICK P. CHAVIT
INSTRUCTOR, RES 301/ELT 210
BSED – ENGLISH
MASTER OF ARTS IN TEACHING ENGLISH - CAR

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 ▸ Institutional Vision: The ▸ Institutional Mission: The
Northwestern Agusan Northwestern Agusan
Colleges is envisioned of Colleges commits to deliver
becoming a leading quality education in the
educational institution community that will make a
committed to produce Quality mark of excellence, self-
Community Leaders, an fulfillment and high degree of
effective and efficient partner integrity making individual a
in nation building. productive person.

▸ Institutional Objectives:
▸ a. Develops students’ skills and potentials as their vital tools in making life livable.
▸ b. Provides every student adequate training and relevant activities to enhance his/her
knowledge, skills, potentials, and values as well.
▸ c. Helps every student realize the importance of trusting the works of the Divine
Providence in every endeavor. 3
 ▸ College of Education Vision: The
NAC College of Education
prepares students to build up
educational leadership, develop
effective communication skills,
and promote critical thinking
skills for them to be globally
competitive of their generation as
partner of nation building.
▸ College of Secondary Education Mission:
The NAC College of Education provides
students a conducive and safe place of
learning where each is treasured and
respected, produces effective educators
engaging themselves with all the concerned
individuals in and out of the school in
support to their teaching and leading once
they are already in their respective field of
endeavor.

▸ College of Education Goal: The NAC College of Education aims to meet the
needs of future professional English teachers who can effectively teach their
learning area as the field of specialization of the school.

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▸ I. Course Description:
▸ This three-unit course develops the pre-service English
teachers’ skills in applying the principles and approaches in conducting
research, an independent investigation, to find answers to questions
concerning contemporary and relevant issues in language education.
The emphasis is on the evaluative aspects of language research and its
scientific preparation. In addition, it provides them with an avenue to
learn how the critical review of extant literature in the field can aid in
conceptualizing their research topics. Considerably, their content
knowledge on the fundamental aspects of language teaching and
learning shall be bases of a scholarly language research.

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GRADING SYSTEM
Written Works - 20%
Performance Tasks - 50%
Major Exams - 30%
100%

Note: 10% additional merit for ATTENDANCE. 6

Big concept
What are your thoughts and/or
expectations in this subject?

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Introduction to research
A walk through in research
“ "Research is formalized
curiosity. It is poking and
prying with a purpose."

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“ RESEARCH SCOPE
▸ Language And Culture Profiling And
Preservation
▸ Discourse And Critical Discourse Analysis
▸ Language Learning Teaching
▸ Linguistics And Language Studies

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Big ideas

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Examples:
Examples:
-Correlational
-Historical
-Casual-comparative or
-Descriptive
“ex post facto”
-Discourse Analysis
-True Experimental
-Case Study
-Quasi Experimental
-Phenomenology
-Action
-Ethnography 15
Qualitative vs quatitative vs mixed

QUALITATIVE
Approach: Typically inductive. Focus
on quality of phenomena.
Goals: Depth. Generate hypothesis.
Setting: Natural Complementarity
Sampling: Purposeful
Data Collection: Observational,
descriptive
Data Analysis: Literative
interpretation of textual data.
Products: Recurrent themes,
hypothesis, taxonomies, conceptual
models, survey measures
QUANTITATIVE
Approach: Typically inductive. Focus
on quantity of phenomena.
MIXED
Goals: Breadth. Test hypothesis
Setting: Experimental or natural
(of methods)
Sampling: Random
Integration
Data Collection: Descriptive,
(connect, merge,
embed) Observational, correlational, quasi-
experimental, experimental
Yield
(whole > sum of Data Analysis: statistical analysis of
numeric data
parts)
Products: Statistical significances,
measures of association

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