English Teaching Study Program Faculty of Education and Teachers Training Indonesian Christian University

Course Syllabus
Faculty Study Program Subject/Code/Credits/Semester Course Description : Education and Teacher Training : English Teaching : Research in EL/ELT / . / 3/ VI : Being able to conduct a research is one of the academic competencies students have to master. Therefore, it becomes one of the requirements for students to graduate from the university. This subject concerns the types and the methods of research on the teaching of English as a second/foreign language (ESL/EFL) focusing on the methods commonly used in ESL/EFL classroom research. This is expected to cater for the knowledge and the ability to conduct a classroom research on language teaching. At the end of the course, each student is required to write a sound ELT research proposal. : Parlindungan Pardede; e-mail: parlpard2010@gmail.com; Parlindungan.Pardede@uki.ac.id) :

Lecturer Class Time

Course Requirements: 1. Attendance: Not less than 80% attendance is required in this course. Participation is 25% of the overall grade for this course. This includes being in classes on time with all the necessary materials, participating in class discussion, and completing all in-class and out-of-class assignments, be they individual or group works, and in conventional way or through my blog (http://parlindunganpardede.wordpress.com/ category/research/elt-research/). 2. 3. Reading Assignments. Please make sure you read all the assigned works regularly for it will enable you to master the class materials and finish the assignment papers. Grading Scale: 100-80 A; 79.9-75 A-; 74.9-70.0 B+; 69.9-65 B; 64.9-60 B-; 59.9-55 C; 50-54.9 C-; 45-49.9 D; below 45 E. 1

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Grading and Revisions: When I return a paper to you, it will either have a grade or I will have written revise for a grade. If I have written revise for a grade, it will be recorded as a D until it is revised. Papers that receive a C+ or lower can be revised, as well. To revise a paper, make sure you make a more complete revision.

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INSTRUCTIONAL OBJECTIVES Students understand the nature of EL/ELT Research Students are able to do the followings: a. To explain major significances of research b. To explain research types as they relate to classroom research c. To explain ethics in research Students are able to explain the Steps in the process of research

TOPICS/ SUB- TOPICS 1. Sylabus of EL/ELT Research 1. Research Significances 2. Types of Research 3. Research ethics

METHODS Discussion

REFERENCES Sylabus of ESL/ EFL Research McKay (2006) pp. 1-28

REMARKS

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Reading Discussion

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2. Identifying a Research Problem Reviewing the Literature 3. Specifying a Purpose and Research Questions or Hypotheses 4. Collecting Quantitative Data 5. Analyzing and Interpreting Quantitative Data 6. Collecting Qualitative Data 7. Analyzing and Interpreting Qualitative

Reading Discussion

Creswell (2012), pp. 58-291

DataReporting and Evaluating Research 3 5-7 Students are able to explain the Researching Teachers and followings research methods Learners commonly used in ESL/EFL classroom 1. Experimental Research 2. Action Research 3. Survey Research 4. Introspective Research 5. Case Studies 6. Ethnographic Studies Mid-term Assignment Reading Discussion Creswell (2012), pp. 294-334 McKay (2006) pp. 89-140

Submitting a critics on a self-selected ELT research proposal (or Chapters 1-3 of an ELT Skripsi) Researching Classroom Discourse: 1. Interaction Analysis 2. Discourse Analysis 3. Text Analysis of Student Texts 4. Text Analysis of Teacher Texts 5. Text Analysis of ESL/EFL Language Teaching Materials Researching Classroom Discourse Lecture Discussion McKay (2006) pp. 29-88

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Students are able to explain methods that can be used to study the oral and written discourse of classrooms

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Students are able to write a complete ELT research proposal based on a selfselected topic and method Final-term Assignment

Lecture Discussion

http://parlindunganpardede.wordpr ess.com/2011/09/16/2-researchproposal-guidelines/

Submitting a complete ELT research proposal

Major Reference 3

McKay, S. L. (2006). Researching second language classrooms. New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., Publishers Creswell, J. W. (2012). Educational research : planning, conducting, and evaluating quantitative and qualitative research (4th ed). New Jersey: Pearson Recommended Text for Personal Enrichment Burns. A. (2010). Doing action research in english language teaching: A guide for practitioners. New York: Routledge: Denscombe, M. (2010). The good research guide for small-scale social research projects. New York: McGraw-Hill Hopkins, D. (2008) A teachers guide to classroom research. Open University Press Ross, Kenneth N. (ed.). (2005). Educational research: Some basic concepts and terminology. Paris: International Institute for Educational Planning/ UNESCO. The Web-Address of the Research in EL/ELT Class Blog: http://parlindunganpardede.wordpress.com/category/research/elt-research/