This course aims to provide students with research skills with the right method according to their research focus. Through this course, students' research abilities are developed through lecture materials that include knowledge of various types of research in education, particularly in teaching English, research design, and research methodology as well as proposal writing.

• Students have good knowledge of various research approaches, types, and designs in English language teaching contexts.
• Students are able to design a systematic and methodological research proposal with an apropriatae research design
• Students are able to design classroom action research

Meeting 1: Introduction to Educational Research 

(Definition, purpose and importance of research in education & ELT and Types of research (quantitative, qualitative, mixed-methods, action research).

Meeting 2: Identifying Research Problems in ELT

(Topic and Background of the study, research gaps (novelty), research problem, the objective and contribution of the study).

Meeting 3: Literature Review in ELT Research

The role of literature study in research, Techniques for finding and evaluating sources (journals, books, articles) and Avoiding plagiarism & paraphrasing techniques.

Meeting 4: Research Design and Approaches

Selection of research approach (quantitative, qualitative, or mixed), and Example of research design in ELT.

Meeting 5: Quantitative Research Methods in ELT

Characteristics of quantitative research, Types of quantitative research design, research instruments and quantitative analysis (statistical analysis).

Meeting 6: Sampling Techniques & Data Validity and Trustworthiness. 

Sampling techniques, Data validity, reliability and trustworthiness and Ethics of data collection in educational research.

Meeting 7: Mid-Test

Meeting 8: Qualitative Research Methods in ELT

Characteristics of qualitative research, Types of qualitative research design, research instruments and qualitative analysis (thematic analysis and qualitative analysis).

Meeting 9: Mixed-Methods in ELT

Characteristics of Mixed-Methods research, Types of Mixed-Methods research design, research instruments and Mixed-Methods analysis (triangulation).

Meeting 10: Action Research in ELT

Characteristics of action research, Types of action research design, research instruments and data analysis

Meeting 11: Writing Research Proposals

Structure of research proposal (background, problem formulation, method), Formulating research questions & hypotheses and Example of ELT research proposal.

Meeting 12: Writing Research Findings

Data visualization techniques (tables, graphs, diagrams), compiling results and interpret the findings.

Meeting 13: Writing Research Discussion

Writing a discussion and discussing the findings with previous studies.

Meeting 14: Writing Research Conclusion

Writing conclusion, the limitation of the study and the research implication.

Meeting 15: Writing References

Writing citation and references using referencing tools (APA Style 7th Edition).

Meeting 16: Final Test

TEFL I (Method of ELT), TEFL II (Techniques of ELT)

Participation

Performance

Written test