CRELLA Staff offered an eleven week course in Research Methods for MA in Applied Linguistics (TEFL), Intercultural Communication, International Relations and ELT Management in 2012 Term 1.

PhD students were welcome to audit the classes. Please see the schedule below.

Class times were Wednesday 9am to 11am, with the exception of Dr John Field's lectures which started at 9:30 am. 

Lecture slides can be found on BREO.

Weekly programme

Semester 1

• Week 1 (3 Oct) – What is research? (CW)
• Week 2 (10 Oct) – Ethnography and case studies (SB)
• Week 3 (17 Oct) – Experimental research design (JF)*
• Week 4 (24 Oct) – Surveys and questionnaires (SC) – Park Square C201
• Week 5 (31 Oct) – Action research and observation (SB) – Park Square C201
• Week 6 (7 Nov) – Verbal report and interviews (JF)* – Park Square C201
• Week 7 (14 Nov) – In-class test (TM) – Park Square C201
• Week 8 (21 Nov) – Workshop on developing questionnaires (SC) – C201
• Week 9 (28 Nov) – Dealing with quantitative data (FN) – Park Square C201
• Week 10 (5 Dec) – Mixed methods research (FN) – Park Square C201
• Week 11 (12 Dec) - Research ethics: ethical considerations in interviews and questionnaires (LT) – Park Square C201
• Week 12 (19 Dec) – Writing up research projects (LT) – Park Square C201
• Week 13 (9 Jan) - Feedback on test and preparation for research project (TM) – Park Square C201

*9:30 am start

Staffing

• CW: Professor Cyril Weir
• SC: Dr Sathena Chan
• TG: Dr Tony Green
• SB: Dr Stephen Bax
• JF: Dr John Field
• FN: Dr Fumiyo Nakatsuhara
• LT: Dr Lynda Taylor
• TM: Mr Theo Maniski