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LESSON 1- NATURE AND CONCEPTS OF LANGUAGE RESEARCH

1. What is Academic Integrity?

 Academic integrity refers to one’s honesty and dignity in doing academic works
such as researches and theses. It is establishing trust, respect among the members
of the academe, and sense of responsibility to whatever works you have done or
will be doing.
2. Explain this moral derived from the story: The title of your research doesn’t matter.
The subject doesn’t matter. The research doesn’t matter. All that matters is who
your advisor is.
 The role of the adviser is of great importance because he/she will be the ones to
guide you and help you strategize. In my own understanding about the anecdote,
the research of the rabbit is non-sense, but because the rabbit’s adviser is the wise
and strategic lion, the rabbit has proven its claim. Researchers and the adviser
must be one; the adviser being the head of planning and strategies while the
researchers as the executors and gatherers of data to prove.

Activity 1. Guided by the graphic organizer, explain in your own words (in writing) the meaning
research and its characteristics. Be brief in your explanation.

SYSTEMATIC
It follows a step-by-step process
or cycle starting from
observations to asking
questions.

CRITICAL RESEARCH CONTROLLED

It must be free from any
criticism especially from
experts on the same field.
Researchers are always
ready to answer.
Research is a scientific Research sets a specific
quest for truth to answer parameter and scope of
questions and provide the study to minimize
solutions. time and factors that may

EMPIRICAL
Research must be a first-hand
experience that gives
conclusions based on factual
evidences gathered.
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Activity 2. Guided by the graphic organizer below, explain briefly in writing at least three
uses/benefits of doing research in the English language classroom?
Language teachers will be more equipped in aligning their
BENEFITS OF objectives, adapt strategies and improve their teaching styles to
attain student learning.
DOING We can understand the people better in terms of their cultures
LANGUAGE and how these things relate to language, so that teachers,
RESEARCH students, and the community can meet to fulfil the gap.
Conducting a research will help us be informed through
different perspectives in addressing an issue of concern in the
classroom, to the students, and in the community.

Activity 3. In your own words and in 15 words, explain briefly the terms indicated.
1. Quantitative and qualitative research
 Quantitative deals with numerical data like graphs and statistics, while Qualitative
are expressed in words.
2. Basic and applied research
 Basic research is theory-based; doesn’t solve problem/s, meanwhile applied is
contrary because it poses solutions.

Activity 1. Gather from Internet sources at least 3 language researches taking note of their title
and objectives. Then classify each research according to purpose and method used. Give a short
justification of your answer. Use the matrix below to present your answers.

Type of Research
Title of the Objectives or According to Type of Research According
Language Research Purpose (Basic, to Method (Quantitative vs.
Research Questions Applied, Qualitative)
Evaluation, Action)
Skopos Theory The study Action research Their method is quantitative
and the attempts to make because the study because they utilized gathering
Translation of an approach to the deals with a specific of data that enabled them to
NonVerbal English translation problem about interpret their findings.
Communicatio of the problematic translation and it
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n as a Culture- area of non-verbal identified its

Specific Item in communication as location which is
Radwa a culture-specific conducted in
Ashour`s Novel item in the Arabia.
Granada Arabian culture,
the outcome of
this thesis can be
used for analysis
and helping
translators to deal
with this
problematic area.
Collocation in It aims at Basic research This is a qualitative research
English and describing and because they dealt because the study is
Arabic: A comparing with finding out descriptive and contrastive.
Contrastive collocation in similarities and
Study English and differences of
Arabic through English and Arabic
identifying its translation.
basic linguistic
aspects which are
syntactic,
semantic,
pragmatic and
textual
Strategies in The aim of the This study is an It is a quantitative research
Translating study is to action research because they Each strategy is
Collocations in investigate the because it focuses explained further and
Religious Texts various strategies on the strategies and illustrated by using examples
from Arabic used by MA techniques used by taken from the students'
into English translation MA translation responses.
students as a result students.
of the difficulties
encountered in
translating
collocations in
religious texts
from Arabic into
English. The
present study has
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attempted to
answer the
following
question: What
strategies do MA
translation
students employ
in rendering
collocations in
religious texts?

Activity 2. As a future language teacher, what do you see as the benefits of doing a classroom
research to your job as a facilitator of language learning? Explain briefly but substantially.
 Research will help me especially my students because it will give rise to new
strategies, techniques, and methods for them to learn and for me to employ inside
the classroom. It be more focused in addressing their problems and identifying
exact solutions. Since, it is done inside the classroom, me, as a future educator
will have the strength or advantage because I knew my students well, hence, I can
observe and really give attention to the study.

Directions: Identify the term described in the following statements. Write your answer on a
separate sheet of paper.
1. The process of knowing in which a problem is identified, relevant data is gathered, a
hypothesis is formulated from this data, and the hypothesis is empirically tested.
ANSWER: Research
2. The procedural investigation conducted to establish the association among natural
phenomena.
ANSWER: Prediction Research
3. This characteristic establishes that research is an orderly process of knowing.
ANSWER: Systematic
4. This statement tells the answer to a problem or identifies what is to be answered.
ANSWER: Research questions
5. This type of research is limited to finding the answer of the specific problem encountered
by a teacher in the classroom.
ANSWER: Action research
6. This criterion indicates limits of the study in terms of the area to be studied.
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ANSWER: Controlled
7. It is the purpose of research to describe what is happening at the moment to a particular
group or place.
ANSWER: Description
8. The research whose main purpose is to generate knowledge for knowledge sake.
ANSWER: Exploration
9. The research problem/question that is already made clear by the researcher about
clarifying and delimiting it.
ANSWER: Research Findings/Results
10. This research is done to make judgment as the effectiveness of an intervention introduced
to solve a problem.
ANSWER: Evaluation Research
11. The characteristic of research that requires that concrete facts are used as evidence to
make sound conclusions.
ANSWER: Empirical
12. The purpose of research which aims at making statements of what is likely to happen if
certain conditions exist in the context described.
ANSWER: Prediction
13. This research is intended to discover a solution to a pressing problem in life.
ANSWER: Applied research
14. This research collects numerical empirical data to make valid conclusions.
ANSWER: Quantitative Research
15. This kind of data are expressed in quantities like scores, amount, volume, weight, etc.
ANSWER: Quantitative Data

Congratulations! You have done successfully the activities of the initial lesson. Go over the
experiences in this lesson and reflect on them, as you fill up the Exit ticket below.

I am certain that I
learned about…. I think there is still I could apply what
a need to learn I learned by…
What research is
more about….
according to the Doing my best in
different definitions How to be a good picking the research
of dictionaries and researcher especially to be studied and
researchers. I have on gathering accurate methods to be
also learned its information and citing employed in my
characteristics, kinds, its sources. future endeavors.
goals, and types.