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Title: | Some Observations about the effectiveness of the research methodology component of the graduate education in TEFL |
Authors: | Mohammed-Tahir, Nuru |
Keywords: | Effectiveness, research methodology, graduate education,TEFL |
Issue Date: | Aug-2009 |
Publisher: | St.Mary's University |
Abstract: | This paper is based on an earlier stage of a research project intended to assess the
performance of students in research methodology with a view to cataloguing successes and
failures in the research component of the training offered to students as part of their graduate
education. More specifically, drawing on a subset of data gathered for the main study, the
paper reports some preliminary results of an exploratory study aimed at assessing the
adequacy and effectiveness the research component of the curriculum for the MA programme
in TEFL which is run by the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature of AAU. In
exploring the relative success of this component of the training, this particular piece of
research has confined itself to a measure of student performance in the design and
development of instruments for data collection. Data for this paper were obtained from the
research-related work produced by students at three distinct phases in the training process:
the proposal writing, the thesis writing and the oral defence stages. The overwhelming finding
of this research is that students’ output appeared to suffer from many flaws in design and
logic. The results also suggest that students are unable to demonstrate the knowledge and
skills deemed necessary for the effective use of data collection tools for research purposes.
More importantly, there appeared to be gaps in their ability to apply research skills ranging
from seemingly mundane but absolutely crucial ones to the more advanced ones. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/2114 |
Appears in Collections: | Proceedings of the 7th National Conference on Private Higher Education Institutions (PHEIs) in Ethiopia
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