My research design is quan --> QUAL ---> QUAL
It means that i'm going to use a questionnaire prior to in-depth interviews and classroom obeservation.
These are some hints for my research design that I took notes from Dornyei's book.
Interviews
Rules of thumbs in interview and questionnaire:
- Don’t use words that interviewee doesn’t understand
- Avoiding leading questions (It was really frustrating, wasn’t it?)
- Minimizing loaded of ambiguous words and jargons
Conducting the interview:
- Let it flow naturally, with the various parts connecting seamlessly
- Listen more than speak: An interview is not a platform for the interviewer’s opinion
- Let the interviewee dictates the pace without being rushed or interrupted
- Interact without posing any personal bias (Neutrality of the researcher)
- Rapport is indispensable – not presenting ourselves in a perfect light is also helpful
- Wording questions in such a way that it suggests that the behaviour is rather common
- Put the question in a straightforward in a non-threatening way
- Enjoy it – don’t give the message that you are bored or scared. Vary your voice and facial expression
Useful techniques for the interview
- must appear to be a sympathetic listener
- giving carry-on feedback/ give small gestures such as the ‘attentive lean’ and ‘eyebrow flash’, and we can add the ‘sympathetic smile’
- reinforcement feedback : indicating that we are pleased with the way the interview is going and confirming that the interviewee’s efforts are worthwhile
- encouraging elaboration : remain silent if you are waiting for more/ repeating the last word spoken by the respondent
- rekindle the respondent’s interest and focus the responses – using tranisition announcement and introductory statements before a new issue to create the appropriate mindset or schema
- giving a brief conclusion
- express gratefulness and respect – discuss the way by which the material will be used and the logistics of how to keep in touch in the future
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Tessie says "I like this methodology book written by Dornyei- very up-to-date, practical, and well-organized. - would recommend to other novice applied linguistics researchers."
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