Multimodal Literacy: Investigating the multimodal literary practices in an Adult ESL classroom
Budget: $250 – $750 USD
Part A: Carrying out an interview and reporting on it in a blog post
Carry out and record an interview about your planned research with a person related to the teaching and learning context which you intend to focus on in your proposal.
You do not need to submit anything for Task 1.
Task 2: Reporting on the interview (no more than 700 words)
Write a report on your interview in a style that is suitable for an academic blog post.
Part B: Preparing a research proposal (no more than 6300 words)
Write a proposal for your own research project into a teaching and learning context with which you are familiar.
Title
Aims and research questions
Rationale
Literature review
Research setting
Data and methods
Ethical issues
Limitations and challenges.
Part A: Briefly explain what your teaching and learning context is, as well as who you interviewed and their relation to the context. Briefly summarise the interviewee’s responses. Then explain how their responses inform your planned research. As part of this contribution, transcribe an extract from your interview to illustrate a point. The extract should include at least two turns (the interviewer’s and interviewee’s) and be between 6 and 12 lines in total.
Process of carrying out the interview:(300 words)
Reflect on the practical process of carrying out the interview.
You should not write for a solely academic audience but in a style suitable for an academic blog post.
PART B: Structure
The sections of your proposal should address the following points. All word counts are approximate, but the total word count of 6300 words should be observed.
Title
Aims and research questions(500 words)
Rationale (1500 words)
Literature review(1500 words)
Research setting(500 words)
Data and methods(1500 words)
Clearly, outline, explain, and justify the data and research methods included in your research proposal. Start by outlining the datasets you will collect and explain how they enable you to address your research questions. You may need to link specific datasets to particular research questions. Then explain your data collection methods. Finally, suggest how you will analyze the data and how this enables you to address your research questions. Be clear and precise. Draw on module materials to explain and justify your decisions. You should also draw on readings throughout the module, showing how you are replicating or building on methods adopted in other studies.
Ethical issues (300 words)
Limitations and challenges (500 words)
Acknowledge any limitations to the proposed research project. Include practical difficulties you anticipate facing in carrying it out (e.g. resistance from other teachers or students, your workload or that of those involved in your project, financial issues, problems with classroom space or technology). You can include concerns you have about the scope and scale of the research (e.g. whether it is sufficient to fully address the problem you identify) and its effectiveness (e.g. will it have a long-term impact on learning). Comment on alternative ways in which the same issue could be addressed or ways in which you might extend the research in future.
Carry out and record an interview about your planned research with a person related to the teaching and learning context which you intend to focus on in your proposal.
You do not need to submit anything for Task 1.
Task 2: Reporting on the interview (no more than 700 words)
Write a report on your interview in a style that is suitable for an academic blog post.
Part B: Preparing a research proposal (no more than 6300 words)
Write a proposal for your own research project into a teaching and learning context with which you are familiar.
Title
Aims and research questions
Rationale
Literature review
Research setting
Data and methods
Ethical issues
Limitations and challenges.
Part A: Briefly explain what your teaching and learning context is, as well as who you interviewed and their relation to the context. Briefly summarise the interviewee’s responses. Then explain how their responses inform your planned research. As part of this contribution, transcribe an extract from your interview to illustrate a point. The extract should include at least two turns (the interviewer’s and interviewee’s) and be between 6 and 12 lines in total.
Process of carrying out the interview:(300 words)
Reflect on the practical process of carrying out the interview.
You should not write for a solely academic audience but in a style suitable for an academic blog post.
PART B: Structure
The sections of your proposal should address the following points. All word counts are approximate, but the total word count of 6300 words should be observed.
Title
Aims and research questions(500 words)
Rationale (1500 words)
Literature review(1500 words)
Research setting(500 words)
Data and methods(1500 words)
Clearly, outline, explain, and justify the data and research methods included in your research proposal. Start by outlining the datasets you will collect and explain how they enable you to address your research questions. You may need to link specific datasets to particular research questions. Then explain your data collection methods. Finally, suggest how you will analyze the data and how this enables you to address your research questions. Be clear and precise. Draw on module materials to explain and justify your decisions. You should also draw on readings throughout the module, showing how you are replicating or building on methods adopted in other studies.
Ethical issues (300 words)
Limitations and challenges (500 words)
Acknowledge any limitations to the proposed research project. Include practical difficulties you anticipate facing in carrying it out (e.g. resistance from other teachers or students, your workload or that of those involved in your project, financial issues, problems with classroom space or technology). You can include concerns you have about the scope and scale of the research (e.g. whether it is sufficient to fully address the problem you identify) and its effectiveness (e.g. will it have a long-term impact on learning). Comment on alternative ways in which the same issue could be addressed or ways in which you might extend the research in future.