Friday, April 1, 2011

Week 8


Tuesday, 1/3/2011

            Another two groups presented today. They were the last two groups to present. Hazura and Faridatul presented on historical method, where we study histories as in to see how it was like in the past and how it has evolved in the present. Since it is going to take much time and quite difficult to conduct, I don’t think I would employ historical research in my research proposal. Having the knowledge of what historical method is very useful to differentiate it with ethnographic research. The last group, Ateff, Ezham, and Rahim explained about case study; which is also popular among educational researchers. Case study is an in-depth study of a particular situation rather than a sweeping statistical survey. This method can be used to narrow down a very broad field of research into one easily researchable topic. I think case study is to study more specific topic of a particular people – it answers the questions of why and how. This is what I have planned to do with my research proposal. I plan to do a case study on the readiness of TESL undergraduates to teach – I found that some of them are not ready to teach; and I even experience the same thing. Therefore, I want to study on how ready they are after graduating from their TESL degree. I am planning to investigate on three areas – subject matter knowledge, classroom management skills, and excessive workloads. More readings need to be done to have an in-depth knowledge in these areas.
            After the presentations, Dr. Izaham lectured on sampling methods. The lecture was very helpful for me because I managed to understand random and non-random sampling methods. From the lecture, I intended to do random purposive sampling for my research. I have target group respondents who fulfill the characteristics that I want and I will randomly select from the population. Population and sample are important aspects for the research as choosing the wrong population and sample will obviously affect the findings collected from the study.

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