Assignments

 Research Design in Applied Linguistics -- Fall 2000

Assignment #1 due September 28th:

Please go to the library and read one of the following articles:

A New Academic Word List.  Averil Coxhead.  TESOL Quarterly, Volume 34, No.2, Summer 2000.

Does Output Promote Noticing and Second Language Acquisition?  Shinichi Izumi and Marth Bigelow.  TESOL Quarterly, Volume 34, No.2, Summer 2000.

Political discourse in the news: democratizing responsibility or aestheticizing politics?  Lilie Chouliaraki.  Discourse & Society, Volume 11, No.3, July 2000.

The Relevance of Information Organization to Second Language Acquisition Studies: The Descriptive Discourse of Advanced Adult Learners of German.  Mary Carroll et al. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, Volume 22, No.3, September 2000.

Do the following:

1. Summarize the article (maximum 750 words).

2. Explain the theoretical grounding of the study you have chosen.

3. Identify the research questions and hypotheses. 

4. Prepare a glossary of unfamiliar terms found in the article.

Read Creswell (Research Design), Chapters 3 and 11.