qualitative research problems
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Research problems should be in interrogative forms.Start will questions words
Topic is in “phrase form”.
Where the questions from?From literature review (previous research)Pre-existing topics (current
situation/experience)Your own finding (from the data collected for
other research).
Topic:• Teachers’ belief• Grammar awareness• Teacher talk/student talk
Types of research questionsDescriptive, explanatory, evaluative
Desc.: How, when, where, what, is/are, do/does dan to what extent
Explanatory: why Evaluative: What is the best …, should English
students ….Primary/secondaryMain/contributory
Types of research questionsDescriptive, explanatory, evaluativePrimary/secondary
Primary: more importantSecondary: less important, additional
informationMain/contributory
Main: Most importantContributory: earlier question whose answer
will lead to the main question
Types of research questionsOverarching/subordinate
Overarching: General main questionSubordinate: Operationalized sub-questions of the
overarching questionEmpirical/methodological/theoretical
Empirical: producing empirical findingsMethodological: observing or suitability of a
research methodTheoretical
Observing theoretical concept and its application in the field
Example 1Do English teachers use more or different language
to speak to boys and girls?How many words of a solicit are directed to
boys/girls?How many are solicits are academics directed to boys
and girls?How many are solicits are non-academics directed to
boys and girls?Does the teacher provide different types of feedback
for boys and girls when they response correctly?Does the teacher provide different types of feedback
for boys and girls when they response incorrectly?
Example 2To what extent does TV1 side with Golkar
Party and its officials?What words are used to report Golkar’s great
events?What words are used to report great events of
other political parties?What words are used to report incident that
may jeopardize the image of other political parties?
Implication of your research question for data, data collection and analysisExample 1:
Data: transcript of the classroom talkData collection: observation (recording)Data analysis: Identify certain words or phrase,
or clauses and explain them
Implication of your research question for data, data collection and analysisExample 2:
Data: recorded stories/news from TV1Data collection: observation (recording)Data analysis: Identify certain words or phrase,
or clauses and explain them
Research questions and methodological consequencesNo
Research questions Data needed
Data collection
Data Analysis
Exercise:1. Work in pair and fill in the table above.
BibliographyLitosseliti, Lia. et al. 2010. Research Methods
in Lainguistics. New York. Continuum International Publishing Group