SEMINARIO 2:
Técnicas de Investigación
Investigar en el aula de lenguas
- Fecha: Miércoles 26 de junio de 2019 de 10:30 a 13:30 y de 15:30 a 17:30.
- Sede: Departamento de Lenguas Aplicadas, Facultad de Lenguas y educación, Universidad Nebrija, campus de Princesa.
- Destinatarios: Estudiantes Doctorado en Lingüística Aplicada.
- Duración: 10 horas lecturas previas + horas presenciales + horas trabajo individual.
Ponente
Alison Mackey Professor and Director of Graduate Studies
Department of Linguistics, Georgetown University
Alison Mackey is an expert on how second languages are learned and how they might best be taught. She is also interested in methodology (how research is carried out). She investigates second language learning across the lifespan, including how new languages are learned at different ages. Her studies have also examined younger and older children, as well as prime-of-life and elderly adults. College-aged students have been a particular focus. Her work has been published in all of the top scholarly journals, as well as in edited collections with Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, John Benjamins and others. She has authored almost 100 articles, chapters, and reports and published 14 books in total - including three books on researching children’s language learning and teaching, four on research methodology, a popular audience book, the Bilingual Edge (which has been translated into a number of languages) and the Handbook of Second Language Acquisition, which won the Modern Language Association's Mildenburger prize (with Susan M. Gass). Her graduate studies included an M.Phil from Cambridge University in the U.K., and a PhD from the University of Sydney in Australia, in linguistics. She has been a language instructor, given workshops for teachers, and taught linguistics in the U.K., Japan, Australia, and the U.S. She is a regular speaker on how languages are learned and taught. She considers one of her most important academic achievements to be her 24 graduated PhD students, all in top jobs, many now with tenure, and in roles directing academic or government programs, and graduating their own students. She is Editor-in-Chief of Cambridge University Press's Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, which is the official journal of the American Association for Applied Linguistics (new issue), co-founder of the Instruments for Research into Second Languages database project, and co-editor of the longstanding book series Second Language Acquisition Research (Taylor and Francis).
Descripción
This seminar will introduce participants to the principles and practices of carrying out research in second and foreign language classrooms. Topics covered will include a brief background to classroom research, including the role and relationship of classroom instructors, action & practitioner research and aptitude-treatment-interaction studies. Typical research questions that arise in classroom/instructed second language studies will be briefly outlined. We will then move on to the heart of the seminar, which will be a discussion of some of the most common techniques for collecting data in instructed settings, including observations (with and without observation schemes), introspections (including uptake charts, stimulated recalls and diaries), classroom discourse, and learner production and perception data. Examples of collection tools, techniques and resulting data will be demonstrated/presented, and participants will have the opportunity to critique and modify them with hands-on participation. Finally, we will conclude by discussing the important issues of logistics and ethics in the context of classroom research, including issues like intrusion, recording and anonymity, as well as obtaining informed consent and debriefing students and instructors.
Bibliografía
- Mackey, A. (2017). Classroom-based research. In S. Loewen & M. Sato (Eds.), The Routledge handbook of instructed second language acquisition (pp. 541–561). New York, NY: Routledge.
- Mackey, A., Ziegler, N. & Bryfonski, L. (2016). From SLA research on interaction to TBLT materials. In Tomlinson, B. (Ed.) Second Language Acquisition Research and Materials Development for Language Learning. Taylor and Francis.