Enthonographic research
Questions for Tutorial 3
1. What is ethnographic research? State the difference between an ethnographic research and a psychometric research and give example from applied linguistic studies.
2. Find a report of an ethnographic research in applied linguistics and give your comments on the following points:
The research question
The contexts the research was conducted
What is group or case under study?
What conceptual and theoretical frame works inform the study?
What field techniques were used? For how much time? In what contexts? What were the roles of the ethnographer?
3. Find a report of an ethnographic research in applied linguistics and give your comments on:
What field techniques were used? For how much time? In what contexts? What were the roles of the ethnographer?
What analysis strategies were developed and used? what levels and types of context were attended to in interpretation? - What recurrent patterns are described? - What cultural interpretation is provided? - What are the stated implications for teaching?
Question 1.What is ethnographic research? State the difference between an ethnographic research and a psychometric research and give example from applied linguistic studies.
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Ethnographic research is one form of qualitative research which concerns with studying human behavior within the context in which that behavior would occur naturally and in which the role of the researcher would not affect the normal behavior of the subjects. Ethnography research requires: - much training, skill and dedication - a great store on the collection and interpretation of data - question and hypothesis emerge during the course of investigation, rather than beforehand
CONTRASTING PSYCHOMETRY AND ETHNOGRAPHY: PRINCIPLES
Psychometry
Ethnography
Formulating a research problem
Identifies causal relationships among variables by
1. What is ethnographic research? State the difference between an ethnographic research and a psychometric research and give example from applied linguistic studies.
2. Find a report of an ethnographic research in applied linguistics and give your comments on the following points:
The research question
The contexts the research was conducted
What is group or case under study?
What conceptual and theoretical frame works inform the study?
What field techniques were used? For how much time? In what contexts? What were the roles of the ethnographer?
3. Find a report of an ethnographic research in applied linguistics and give your comments on:
What field techniques were used? For how much time? In what contexts? What were the roles of the ethnographer?
What analysis strategies were developed and used? what levels and types of context were attended to in interpretation? - What recurrent patterns are described? - What cultural interpretation is provided? - What are the stated implications for teaching?
Question 1.What is ethnographic research? State the difference between an ethnographic research and a psychometric research and give example from applied linguistic studies.
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Ethnographic research is one form of qualitative research which concerns with studying human behavior within the context in which that behavior would occur naturally and in which the role of the researcher would not affect the normal behavior of the subjects. Ethnography research requires: - much training, skill and dedication - a great store on the collection and interpretation of data - question and hypothesis emerge during the course of investigation, rather than beforehand
CONTRASTING PSYCHOMETRY AND ETHNOGRAPHY: PRINCIPLES
Psychometry
Ethnography
Formulating a research problem
Identifies causal relationships among variables by