Content
271431-102 First Meeting: 16.04.2020
This course provides students with a forum and appropriate tools for their upcoming Bachelor’s theses in English Language and Linguistics. The first few sessions focus on carrying out linguistic research in general and the different possibilities available for your theses. We will identify and work through the research process using several case studies and apply the lessons learned to your own topics of choice, including the development and discussion of possible research questions. In later sessions, we identify potential data collection and/or data compilation methods before we investigate and subsequently apply descriptive statistics. Finally, we will concentrate on the sound description of linguistic data.
Objectives
By the end of this seminar, students can:
develop research questions, based on thorough reviews of the literature
identify and adapt methodologies to research questions and projects
deduct the suitability of different types of data from these methodologies
and describe their collected data appropriately.
Prerequisites
Portfolio, including Proposal/Exposé, in Research Colloquium I