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Course Outline (RM for Research Methods in Language Learning; SL for Second Language Research Methods; SLAR for An Introduction to Second Language Acquisition Research; WUR for Writing up Research; BD for By Design)

Week 1:     Course introduction     

Week 2:     An introduction to research methods I--RM: 1; SL: Ch 1 & 3; SLAR: Ch 1 (NO CLASS on 2/28)

Week 3:     Ditto

Week 4:     An introduction to research methods II--RM: 1 & The experimental method I--RM: 2; SL: Ch 4 & 5 

Weeks 5:     An introduction to research methods III--RM: 1 & The experimental method II--RM: 2; SL: Ch 6 & 7 & 8   

Weeks 6: Identifying and using library sources

Week7: NO CLASS (4/2, 4)

Weeks 8: Ethnography--RM: 3; SL: Ch 9; 

Week 9: Midterm

Week 10:   Case study--RM: 4; SLAR: Ch 3

Week 11:   Classroom observation and research--RM: 5; SLAR: Ch4; WUR: 1-2; BD: Ch1-2 

Week 12:   Introspective methods--RM: 6; SLAR: Ch 6 & 8; WUR: 3-4; BD: Ch3-5

Week 13:   Elicitation technique--RM: 7; BD: Ch 6-8; WUR: 5-7;(NO CLASS on 5/21)

Week 14:   WUR: 8-9; BD: Ch 9-10; SL: Ch10 (3 hours--1 hour for 5/28)

Week 15:   NO CLASS (NＯ CLASS on 5/30)    

Week 16:   Finals

N/A

Grade for the course will be computed as follows: (i) exam & paper: 30% each, (ii) oral presentation: 20% (iii) class participation: 20%

Nunan, David. Research Methods in Language Learning, 10^th printing. Cambridge University Press, 2001.

And various materials from other textbooks and/or journal articles.