2. Α
Dissertation 1
(something imported)
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Corpora and language education: exploitation potentials in teaching
Greek and construction of pedagogically relevant corpora
- by Giagkou, Maria (2009)
Σώματα Κειμένων και Γλωσσική Εκπαίδευση: Δυνατότητες αξοιποίησης στη διδασκαλία της Ελληνικής και
συγκρότηση παιδαγωγικά κατάλληλων σωμάτων κειμένων. Γιάγκου, Μαρία (2009)
3. Dissertation Layout
1. Introduction
2. Applied Linguistics and Corpus Linguistics
3.Contributions of Corpus Linguistics to language education
4. Corpus Linguistics and the teaching of Greek
5. Characteristics of appropriate learner corpora
6. Readability of texts
7. Organization of Greek texts by readability criteria
8. Summary of findings
9. Bibliography
10.Appendices
4. RGs, RQs and Methodology
RG1: The derivation of
pedagogically useful
conclusions using (or
guided by) linguistic
research data.
RG2: The creation
(collection) of
pedagogically appropriate
corpora, meaning corpora
that can be included in
teaching practices and
useful to learners
Research-based
position paper
(chapters 2-4)
RQ1: What are the
measurable text
characteristics that
influence the
reading difficulty of
a text?
RQ2: How can this
influence be
quantified so that a
Greek text can be
evaluated on its
reading difficulty?
RQ3: How can
readability be used as a
criterion for automatic
collections of
appropriate texts for
specific groups of
learners, and hence
create a pedagogically
appropriate corpus?
Creation of new formula for readability based on
existing formulas for English. Validate using those
formulas and learners of a specific grade range
(chapters 5-7)
6. Research Participants
✘1,970 middle school students from 20 different schools in Greece
(7th, 8th, 9th grade)
60% return rate
913 of the returned tests were valid for study
✘Unnamed experts *
7. (Positives)
✘Very (very!) well researched
✘Bibliography draws from more than just Greek and English works
✘Reads well and has logical structure
✘Contributes to field by means of a new computational model
8. (Points of improvement)
✘Very long setup (lost sight of the ‘prize’?)
✘Felt like two related dissertations (not one connected whole)
✘Makes assumption that textbook texts are appropriate for learner
level (replace unnamed experts with actual human participants)
9. ✘A dissertation idea: analyze language use of community
participants in an online social network (Fb or Twitter)
✘Corpus Linguistics Analysis is an interesting approach to use:
creation of corpora from social media communities to be used for
analysis.
✘Could compare corpus-derived findings to other findings, such as
SNA derived findings (compare language use of in- and out- groups)
✘Verdict: a little too math-focused for me (at this time)
Connections
10. Β
Dissertation 2(something domestic)
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Collaboration in Online Environments: Student
Perceptions of Purpose, Process, and Product.
- by Rochelle, Gail (2004)
12. RQs and Methodology
RQ1: What are student perceptions of
collaborative research as it occurs using a
web-based electronic portfolio?
RQ2: How do students view the effects of
such collaboration on their learning
purpose, process, and product?
✘ Case study approach
✘ Using Naturalistic Inquiry Model
✘ Emergent design
✘ Use of Content Analysis
13. Research Participants
✘Students in a uVA class (EDIS 542: Language, Literacy, and Culture)
who are undertaking a collaborative project
✘18 students taking entry survey
✘2 students acting as cases
✘13 (of original 18) students taking exit survey
14. ✘Builds on work of 2 previous dissertations
✘Researcher has a emic & etic perspectives as a former student in
that class
✘Not just approached from one lense
Collaborative learning
Computer & collaboration
ePortfolios
Online Learning Communities
(Positives)
15. ✘Author didn’t quite understand Case Study method?
✘Entry survey more on focused on tech skills (connection to collaboration?)
✘Some sections a little short?
✘Surface-level literature review
✘Repetitive final chapter
✘Too much focus on future research (connects to lit-review)
✘Too specific in its implementation (title suggest something more abstract)
✘Missed opportunity for collaboration vs cooperation
✘Whither COP and CoI?
(Points of improvement)
16. Connections
✘Provided me with some literature that might have been overlooked
✘Similar approach envisioned for my dissertation proposal
✘Case Study, emergent design, collaboration context
✘What about a research data retention policy?
✘Researcher-as-human-instrument statement
17. Γ
My Proposal(hopefully a fine blend of domestic approaches and international actors)
Greek numeral (3)
18. Working Title
Open Course Collaboration: A case study of
emergent collaboration in Rhizo14 and
Rhizo15
19. Rhizo ‘14
The community that
piqued (kindled?) my
interest in collaborative
research in online
communities
20. What happened in Rhizo?
✘We learned...
✘We interacted… (student-student, and student-content)
✘We formed voluntary groups to research… (wait...what? This wasn’t in the syllabus!)
Not unprecedented, something similar happened in MobiMOOC in 2011
21. The Big Q
Why initiate? Why participate? Why complete? Why repeat?
Why?
23. Research Participants
Individuals who enrolled in Rhizo14 and/or Rhizo15 and who collaborated
an extra-curricular research project that was published or presented at
a conference. These individuals participated in groups of 2 or more
people
ΤΕΟΛ = cloze test -- a test in which one is asked to supply words that have been removed from a passage in order to measure one's ability to comprehend text
Διακριτική ανάλυση - Discriminant Analysis → statistical analysis using a discriminant function to assign data to one of two or more groups.
Selection from existing corpora of textbook texts
Researcher used texts that were collected by experts for inclusion in textbooks for certain grade levels. These pre-selected texts were compared to the text output from the machine learning aloruthm that picked grade-level appropriate texts.
Critical analysis:
General good & bad aspects?
Specific points of quality? Specific gaps/flaws?
Writing style, organization & communication of ideas?
Breadth of research? Supporting arguments?
Critical analysis:
General good & bad aspects?
Specific points of quality? Specific gaps/flaws?
Writing style, organization & communication of ideas?
Breadth of research? Supporting arguments?
Relation to your area/project/methodology?
How & in what ways useable to your project?
Information provided?
Ideas generated?
Research process?
Theoretical approach(es)?
Organizational structures?
Lincoln & Guba 1985 for Naturalistic Inquiry
Emergent design in order to take into account ongoing meaning-making by students
Examined through lenses of (in literature review)
Collaborative learning
Computers and collaboration
ePortfolios
Online Learning Communities
Short section for example describing the participants
Case study unit is the individual, not the group?
COP originally from 1996
CoI from 2000
Some parts are too specific on one assignment, not on collaboration in general
Literature to look up:
Negroponte (1995) re: internet
Hargreaves (1996) re: rapport
Hargreaves (1994) re: cliques
Strauss & Corbin on Objectivity
Naturalistic Inquiry Axioms
Maxell (1996) on strengths of qualitative work
Author writes that “with the exception of confidential materials, all of these [collected data] items are available upon request, to an auditor for examination to attest to their accuracy and fairness” - how long should you keep data like this?
Relation to your area/project/methodology?
How & in what ways useable to your project?
Information provided?
Ideas generated?
Research process?
Theoretical approach(es)?
Organizational structures?