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LANGUAGE AND SOCIETY

RESEARCH PROPOSAL PLAN


Research Proposal Plan

• A. INTRODUCTION
1. Topic: description, definition + place it in the literature = the literature
review (what other people say!)
• N.B.: Do NOT FORGET to show WHERE you get the
ideas/information from: REFERENCES IN THE TEXT:
e.g.: When you quote put: before or after the quotation: (FAMILY
NAME of writer, Year of publication of book/article and page where the
quotation comes from ), e.g.:
• ‘(...) some researchers (...) distinguish between acquisition and learning.
The former refers to the subconscious process of picking up a language
through exposure and the latter to the conscious process of studying it’
(Ellis, 1994: 14) (my emphasis/emphasis added/ emphasis in the original).
Research Proposal Plan

• When you paraphrase (say in your own words


what a specialist said in his/her book) you always
put references in your text. Like this:
• However, if we interpret language teaching in the
very broadest sense, to include all the planning
and decision-making which takes place outside the
classroom, then there may be an element of
applied linguistics in all language teaching
(Corder, 1973:10).
5. Research Proposal Plan

2. Hypothesis + research Questions (what they are


+ description)
• e.g.: IInd year AML undergraduates are
dissatisfied with the teaching they are
exposed to.= hypothesis
• RQs:
• -Why are undergraduates dissatisfied?
• -Is dissatisfaction due to teachers?
5. Research Proposal Plan

• B. RESEARCH METHODOLOGY (describe and explain how and


why you will/may do things in your research/study)
1. METHOD: experiment, survey, participant observation, using
available data, etc.
2. INSTRUMENT
3. INFORMANTS/ subjects/respondents = describe + deal with ethics
(e.g., not the real names, ensuring confidentiality, how much you tell
them)
4. DATA
• Description
• Analysis (reading of the data/identification of themes/ patterns of
similarity or dissimilarity + categorising the data + coding of data)
5. Research Proposal Plan

• C. CONCLUSIONS:
• 1. results of analysis (what you will/may
find in the analysis)
• 2. interpretation of results = conclusions =
YOUR ANSWERS TO YOUR
RESEARCH QUESTIONS
5. Research Proposal Plan

• D. REFRENCES (listed alphabetically), e.g.:


• Corder, P. (1973). An Introduction to Applied
Linguistics. London: Penguin Books
• Ellis, R. (1994). The Study of Second Language
• Acquisition. Oxford: OUP
•  
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• REQUIREMENTS:
• font: Times New Roman
• font size: 12
• line spacing: 1,5
• blocked paragraphs + full justification (no indentation, with a
blank line between paragraphs)
• Long quotations (more than two lines):
• font size: 10
• line spacing: single
• indent them (two ‘tabs’)
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• COVER PAGE:
• Name of course: LANGUAGE AND
SOCIETY
• Title of research proposal
• Name of author (& year/group)

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