Techniques for Personal Research
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This is your Techniques for Personal Research course, in short, we go 'TPR'. Your course aims to develop your research knowledge of theory, practice, and ethics.
Your teacher is an inspired young researcher. She looks forward to creating a community of young researchers with you.
Level
Second-year Masters students
Specialism
Didactics
Course Outcomes
Students will develop an understanding of research and writing research:
In research, students will
Be able to choose a topic, and conduct it for 8 months,
Synthesise research questions, aims and objectives;
Analyse and evaluate the literature review;
Identify methodology and methods;
Analyse and interpret data;
Differentiate between introductions and conclusions;
Recognise the Dos and Dont's
Aware of research ethics.
Complete a thesis.
In writing research, students will
Know, read, and grasp the literature using reading and schemata techniques.
Develop writing skills: note-taking, summarising and paraphrasing, and quoting.
Draw research questions and research aims.
Write their literature review using specific terminology.
Write a methodology chapter, data analyses and discussion.
Write a Reference list
Produce an inclusive essay that exposes, describes, and explains their Master Project Practice (MPP)
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Lecturer
Dr Wafa Zekri, Associate lecturer
- Faculty of Letters and Foreign Languages, at Tlemcen University.
- Department of English.
- Contact: zekriwafa4@gmail.com
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You will find in your syllabus all the chapters we will deal with in your second year Masters class. Your syllabus is inclusive and consistent with your research needs.
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The mind map summarises the main components of a thesis writing. The mind map is made by a potentially motivated Masters student of Didactics.
Abderrezak TROUZINE
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Abdrrezak's words
This mind map is a visual representation of the "Techniques for Personal Research" and "Dissertation Writing" modules, designed to be a helpful resource. I would like to express my sincere gratitude to my professor, Dr. Wafa ZEKRI, for providing me with the opportunity to share this project on her platform.
The present mind map is structured around Bloom's Taxonomy. It references the minimum required "'knowledge" to design, conduct, and outline a personal research proposal.
While the project is incomplete, I am sharing it openly and inviting others to modify and update it as needed. The purpose is to encourage using mind maps in learning/studying and planning research.
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You need to take the pre-test to be able to follow -up with the course !
Thanks
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This chapter is a collection of researchers' reasons and choices made upon conducting research.
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In this forum, all your inquiries are of concern.
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This session aims to identify key steps students can undertake to choose a successful Masters topic in week one.
The full session is shared through the link below.
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In this google shared doc, you will find the full lesson uploaded.
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“Research design in exploratory studies must be flexible but in descriptive studies, it must minimise bias and maximise reliability.” Discuss
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This less will briefly revise types of research designs with Masters students.
Students will revise their lessons in methodology and will share their understanding of each research design.
This lesson aims to build and give voice to students to share their understanding of knowledge production.
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This session will identify exploratory research design.
It will provide a demo article to illustrate how the researcher can conduct an exploratory study.
This research design prepares students to conduct their Masters thesis by learning how to write research problems, identify topics that are not well established in the literature, and raise hypotheses to discuss through the study.
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This session aims to identify the difference between exploratory and explanatory research designs used in human and social sciences.
Students will be able to define explanatory research and know its characteristics.
Students will learn to raise research questions such as 'what', and 'how' to conduct exploratory research, and to find causal relationships through explanatory research by questioning 'why'
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In this space you can exchange your thoughts with your peers on the discussed research designs we found out together in class, sharing your perspectives on why you will employ one or two of them.
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This lesson aims to define the meaning of 'originality' in research.It enables learners to differentiate between knowledge and fact.
It provokes thoughts on investigating the researcher's contexts as an original space.
It creates meaning towards internationalisation of research topics, by contextualising the researcher's area of research.
It explains how research significance builds new knowledge.
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This session aims to highlight the meaning of originality in research.
Students need to differentiate between originality, contribution, and significance of the research.
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please check the document attached.
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Theoretical contribution can be added to the literature review, and researchers' findings can expand on existing concepts with new understandings.
Methodology contribution can be concerned with creating a model, using a new method or methodology that enhances a new of way conducting a specific research area.
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This session is purely a qualitative research discussion.
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This session raises an interest towards the questions process in the qualitative research approach, addressing its structure, content, and form.
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This handout includes a selected language researchers use in qualitative research. It is not to answer research questions, it is to discuss them.
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Block 1
- on – and- of the learning - content tool -and- -the management tool of the app- the design What? are students’ opinions.
Block 2
the supervisor’s- views- on - and -functions - the design- of the- What are-?
mobile app?
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In what types of -summarization different disciplinary courses- tasks did the ESL writers engage in including their major courses- and elective courses? general education courses- What expectations are commonly associated with such tasks?.
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perceptions of- What are the participants’ - the usefulness of- summarization- skill- across the disciplines?
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This lesson presents a broad understanding of the quantitative research approach.
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This session included a brief discussion of the main research method students will need to collect their data with to be able to discuss their research questions, and hypotheses, and to present findings relevant to their area of research.
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Master students of Didactics presented this session:
Ø Mahboub Nedjlaa
Ø Madani Nihad
They discussed how to set observation aims to fit the research objectives, how to acknowledge which type of observation is relevant to the research, and techniques to be employed for data collection, analyses and reporting. -
The questionnaire is a research method used to collect data. To know more, four students from Master Two Didactics discussed its use, types of questions, advantages/disadvantages, and to avoid structures.
Students' names:
*Abdelli Saliha * Benmezian Hanane
*Hanafi Farah * Houari Nassima
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In this activity, you will select which extract (mentioning research contribution) can fit in:
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This chapter discusses data management, data analyses, providing multimodal resources for students to develop their understanding of how to write their analyses chapter.
In the classroom, students are also provided with printed Masters dissertations to discuss the structure of the methodology chapter, analyses and discussion.
Interpretation
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to manage data is to know how to collect, analyse, interpret, compare and store.
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You will find in this session a link to access how researchers can organise their data, analyse and interpret them, following different rational thoughts (deductive/inductive).
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In this forum, you are supported with a research paper on EMI, and you will have to discuss the following questions:
what is the research paper about?
How did researchers present the research gap?
What are the researchers' methodology used?
What are the research methods used?
How is the data presented?
If you have collected interviews in your Masters project, would you present the data alike? and why?
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This video presented by the teacher aims to explain data analysis and data manage
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This is an online session, wherein you can raise your interest in the different topics we have discussed in class. Click the link below to join.
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To finish this semester, you will find an assignment related to all discussed classroom topics.
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You conduct a survey research with participants from Finance Department about their experience learning English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI) to explore their experiences and perceptions of learning their subjects in English. Write an essay with the proposed methodology, method and approach of analysis focusing on 1. Providing a detailed rationale on your chosen design; 2. Describing a specific reasoning for your chosen approach.
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