Experimental Research on Language

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Standard methodologies for planning, conducting, interpreting, and reporting research in Applied Linguistics. APLNG 593 Research Design and Methodology in Applied Linguistics (3) This course introduces standard methodologies for planning, conducting, interpreting, and reporting research in Applied Linguistics. Course activities will include reading texts and articles, completing assigned exercises, participating in group discussions, criticizing research articles, and conducting formal research projects. Students are encouraged, but not required, to focus the research project around their individual thesis or dissertation research and/or to target the research project for publication in a professional journal.The course is aimed at promoting the skills necessary to being effective consumers and producers of research. This will involve learning to formulate research questions, to select appropriate research designs, to appropriate statistical analyses by computer and/or calculator, and to interpret and report the results of studies.