Qualitative Research Methodology in English Education designed to equip
postgraduate (M.Ed.) students with QR knowledge and skills from
ontological and epistemological orientations through design and data
collection processes for use in their postgraduate studies. In this
course, postgraduate students will be trained to critically navigate,
observe, and see current phenomena in the area of English language
education at theoretical and practical levels to allow the students to
frame their future QR project informed by a particular
theoretical/conceptual orientation and previous empirical studies. In
terms of research design, the students will learn narrative inquiry,
case studies,and critical discourse studies in the field of English
language education. They will be trained to critically engineer each of
the QR designs with reference to research problems, research contexts,
research questions and contributions, as well as methodological
considerations (e.g., ontology-epistemology, ethics, participant
recruitment/text selection, data collection methods, and data analysis).
Throughout the course, the students will engage in dialogical lecture,
group work, tutorials, and course practicums (e.g., doing/conducting
observation/interview, data collection protocol design). They will
undertake a mini QR study as part of the course requirements and as a
means of trying out their QR research knowledge and skills in practice.
- Teacher: Rahmah Fithriani