Ecological Perspectives on Language Teaching: Designing a Second Language Acquisition Study

Host Institution: University of California, Davis
Coordinating Institution: Université Catholique de Louvain
Website: https://ucdlc.ucdavis.edu/dlc-summer-school-2023

Dates: 10-Jul-2023 - 14-Jul-2023
Location: Davis, CA

Focus: Second Language Acquisition Study Design. Any language of study welcome.
Minimum Education Level: BA

Special Qualifications:
For MA, PhD students, post-docs and teachers doing research in second language acquisition.

Description:
Language Learning is multidimensional and recent approaches to second language research and teaching have called for more ecological methods of research. A plurality of research methods allows for the complexity and ecology of the language learning classroom thereby facilitating the transfer of findings into practice. Given the number of instruments available to collect data (performance assessment, questionnaires, interviews, cloze texts, etc.) researchers need to choose the best method to connect and integrate their data. In addition, classroom practice can influence data collection as well as how the data is to be coded and analyzed.

This workshop will take the participants through the design of a research project including writing the proposal, data collection, coding, and statistics. For each step of the process, participants will hear a best-practice lecture and then work in small groups to practice the concepts highlighted in the lecture. This is a hands-on workshop with the goal that participants will outline the design of a research project and be able to implement it after the workshop. All language teaching researchers will benefit from participation, regardless of how far their project has already progressed.

Subject Language(s): Areba (aea)

Tuition Explanation: Free

Registration: 01-May-2023 to 01-May-2023

Contact Person: Carlee Arnett
Email: [email protected]

Apply by Email: [email protected]