After comppleting this course, the student
- has acquired insight in the foundations of empirical-analytical scientific research, in particular as found in research in the fields of language, linguistics, and communication.
- will understand
(1) which questions are suitable for scientific research,
(2) how various types of validity may be threatened,
(3) how valid research may be designed,
(4) how data are described, summarized, analyzed, and used to make inferences as well as
(5) the relations between these aspects of scientific research
- has acquired elementary practical skills in describing, summarizing, and analyzing data, and in using data to make inferences,
- has practiced the writing skills and other academic skills to report empirical findings.
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In the first part of this course you will become thoroughly acquainted with the foundations and principles and methods of empirical research, in particular of the type of research involving statistical techniques. What constitutes a good research question? What are the limitations of scientific knowledge? What properties of the design of a study allow us to draw valid and meaningful conclusions?
In the second part of this course you will learn the practical skills to perform statistical analyses of empirical findings. You will also learn how to interpret and evaluate the outcomes of these analyses, and how to report them using academic standards and conventions.
Interwoven with both parts of this course, the examples will introduce a variety of research methods and their associated statistical techniques often encountered in research in language, linguistics, and communication: the questionnaire, the experiment, and the corpus study. You will learn the stronger and weaker aspects of these methods, and how to analyze data collected using these methods.
Deze cursus maakt verplicht deel uit van de bacheloropleiding Taalwetenschap, en vormt tevens een optie voor de verplichte methodencursus in de volgende bacheloropleidingen: Duits, Engels, Frans, Italiaans, Keltisch, Nederlands, en Spaans. De cursus staat tevens open voor studenten uit andere opleidingen met belangstelling voor methoden van empirisch onderzoek en voor de daarbij gebruikte statistische technieken
Lingua Receptiva (Luistertaal)
This course can be followed in Lingua Receptiva. This course is offered in English. The course is also open to students who only have a receptive understanding of this language (as lingua receptiva). If required, these students can participate in Dutch and take the exam and write assignments in that language. If you want to make use of lingua receptiva, please contact the teacher after enrolment. Please note: if you make use of lingua receptiva, this course will be registered as one of the elective modules of your programme. In this case, the course cannot count as a language-specific course within the major or minor part of your programme.
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Let op: deze cursus is equivalent aan de volgende cursussen: Methoden en statistiek 1 (TW2V17001), Meth Hyp-Toetsend Oz (TL3V14002) en kan niet gevolgd worden in combinatie met Ciw-Empirisch onderzoek (CI2V13002) en Ciw-Methoden van Communicatieonderzoek (CI2V17002).
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