Qualitative Research Methods-Weekend 2

Dr. Doris Correa

Master’s in Foreign Language Teaching and Learning

Universidad de Antioquia

Fall 2014

Agenda, Friday, October 17

1.Review of mixed method research Based on table from J & C (2008) on mixed method research, groups report

on what type of research the article by Muñoz et al. (2012) is using. Analysis of time orientation and paradigm emphasis in this article

2. Exercise 2: What are some specific suggestions from Yin (2011) and Richards (2003) for doing qualitative research.

3. Review of Paradigms: Video. What would be a positivist, critical, interpretivist, or postructural view of relationships? (On Board, Start characteristics).

4. According to this analysis, where do we locate ourselves?

Agenda, Saturday, October 17

5. Characteristics of critical, poststructural, positivist and interpretivist research in applied linguistics and review of main concepts (30 +30mins)

Break (10-10:20)

6. Workshop: Based on the named characteristics, decide if your article is taking a positivist, critical, interpretivist, or postructural perspective and support why (90mins)

Time orientation and paradigm emphasis

  Concurrent Sequential

 Equal status

QUAL + QUAN QUAL – QUAN QUAN – QUAL

  Dominant status

QUAL + quan  QUAN + qual

QUAL – quanQual—QUAN  QUAN— qualQuan -- QUAL

Mixed Research

As long as the study uses both quan and qual approaches, the study moves from being monomethod to at least a partially mixed method, even if one of the research approaches is used minimally

Mixing can take place in many different ways and to varying degrees

In mixed research, the researcher should at a minimum, intregrate the results during data analysis and interpretation

Many quality researchers, will include quant components without changing their overall paradigm or approach to research. They will say, for instance, it is a qual study with a quantitative component. “As mixed research grows over time as a research paradigm, we expect to see more and more equal status designs.”

Two variables are important: time orientation (concurrent or sequential) and paradigm emphasis (equal status to both qual and quant or different)