Research Methods: Applied Ling

3 Credits · Level: Undergraduate

The course covers quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods linguistics research and will teach you how to: * Identify research problems, areas and questions * Prepare IRB applications and informed consent documents (and address IRB queries) * Address ethical concerns involved in conducting research with human participants * Come up with predictions * Decide on appropriate and feasible methods for answering research questions or addressing areas of research interest * Choose, design, and/or adapt data collection techniques, and pilot-test them * Understand validity and reliability in quantitative research * Define and operationalize variables * Understand the importance of credibility, transferability and dependability in qualitative research, together with triangulation * Collect, transcribe, describe, code, and analyze data * Understand how mixed-methods research works, layering different perspectives * Use a variety of qual-quant tools for data coding and analysis (e.g., SuperLab, NVivo) * Analyze and critique research designs in the published literature * Write up and present research reports (focus on conference presentations, paper submissions)