Research Methods 5ed002
Answer the questions below in relation to your identified research area in as much detail as possible with the 1500 word limit
What “area” have you chosen as the focus for your level 6 research project?
The area the project intends to focus on for the level 6 research project is College/ University students, in which English is their second language.
Identify three key texts briefly stating how they are relevant to your research?
Using selected literature to support your answer explain why you have decided upon your proposed research questions?
As Diana Burton and Steve Bartlett in Key Issues for Education Researchers (2009, p.14) suggest “[c]ertain things in our lives will have had a significant effect upon who we are now.” Using this idea to investigate into challenges faced by students who have English as an additional language. The researcher will compare the views of students who have either attend a school within the UK or one internationally and a number of professionals mainly lectures. The main area of the research is to find out if any specific challenges were faced by students throughout their educational journey and if the students feels this may have harboured their educational achievement.
What are your identified sources of information and how do you intend to collect data? What are your reasons for selecting these rather than other DCM’s?
There are four main questions the research will form around, these are:
1. What barriers were faced by participants, where English is not their first language?
2. What factors helped participants, where English is not their first language?
3. What do the participants could help support students where English is not their first language?
4. How do the...
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Problems that could be faced during the project are:
• Gaining permission from the Head of the University of Wolverhampton
• Find if any past research has been completed
• Ensure all research completed is worth completing
• Time constraint- not enough time to complete a detailed project
Bibliography
• British Educational Research Association (2011) Ethical Guidelines for Educational Research [online]. Accessed at:
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• Munn, P and Drever, E. (1996) Using Questionnaires in Small- Scale Research; A Teacher’s Guide. Reprint. Edinburgh: Scottish Council for Research in Education.
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order to make an informed decision about the value of the research. Further, it will be argued
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Bartlett, S and Burton, B (2007) Introduction to education studies. 2nd ed. London: SAGE Publications Ltd.
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For everything that occurs, there will somehow be something that caused the action to happen. It is more of a cause and effect ideal or simple a reaction to an action. In terms of research academics, independent and dependent variables are concepts or attributes to certain things that occur such as drug use, crime, or domestic abuse. For example, stress or other personal problems may lead to someone to use drugs. Also, poverty may lead someone to commit crime. In addition, a power controlled individual may cause a partnership to suffer physical or verbal abuse.
The purpose of this assignment is to explain the impact of English language learners in the classroom. As a foreign student, English language learner in the United States faces multiple challenges for achieving academic success. To successfully complete a task, they need to master both English as a language and how it is used in core content classes especially when they are an adult. When trying to assist in instructing English language learners, they usually have many concepts and language abilities that they need to master, as do the teachers that are trying to teach them. With the incorporation of the concepts and approaches to identify and assess the issues and concerns that we have learned in our classroom instruction, such as lesson preparation,
Hugo, W. (2013). Cracking the Code to Educational Analysis. Chapter 7. p105-116. Pearson: Cape Town
The Aims and objectives of educational research can be to “improve practice”, which may be suggestions that arise from current research. It can also help “add knowledge” which may be adding information to existing knowledge or adding to other research projects. Research can “address gaps in knowledge”, this means highlighting areas absent or which lack from other research projects. Educational research can also “expand knowledge”, this can be finding out new information or improving, existing knowledge, this knowledge can also be “replicated”, repeating previous research to certify it. Finally educational research can “add voices of individuals to knowledge”, this is important to gain the views and opinions of people within a research area in order to “understand issues within their own concept” (Creswell 2002, in Chaudhary 2013, p.2).
In this paper, I will define quantitative and qualitative research methods and provide examples in the context of social issues which will hopefully provide insight into how this methods are properly applied.
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One can gain insight through participation and observations of lectures. The concepts that I grasped are based on the individuality and interest of various topics and how I perceive them. Through taking the course of Sociology of Education I have been able to read and conceptualize how prominent education is in the United States; therefore projecting that education is an important tool the modern world correlates with success. Individuals that subject themselves to receiving an education through research validate that they can reach their optimal potential. Sociology of Education covered vast areas of vital informations which put educations and its functions into perspectives by stages.