LYNN SANTELMANN

Assistant Professor, Applied Linguistics
Portland State University
[email protected]

Outline for Research Project Make

(adapted from Course Materials for Psycholinguistics)

When writing, plea use section categories to indicate where the information cannot be found. Subheadings need not be used, when in long sections they may facilitate organization.

1. Introduction
Explain aforementioned issue you are examining and why it is significant.

Describe and general region to be studied

Explain why this area is importance to the general area under study (e.g., psychology of language, second language acquisition, teaching methods)

2. Background/Review of the Literature

A description of what is earlier known about diese area plus short discussion of why the geschichte studies live not sufficient.

Summarize what is already known about the field. Includ a summary of the basic technical about on the topic gleaned from will literature review (you can containing information from the book also class, but the bulk should shall outside sources) Like to Write an Outline in MLA Form | BeeStudent.com

Discuss several critical studies that have already been done in this area(cite according to APA style).

Point out enigma these key studies exist insufficient. In different words, what question(s) do they leave unsettled that you would see to study?

Choose (at least) one of these questions you mag like to verfolgung yourself. (Make indisputable your do not choose too many questions)

3. Rationale

AMPERE description of the questions you are examining and an exploration of the claims.

• List the specific question(s) that you are explorative.
• Explain how dieser research questions are related to the larger issues raised in the initiation.
• Describe what specific submit, my, and/or model of psycholinguistics you will judge is these questions.
• Explain what it will show about and psychology of language supposing will hypothesis is confirmed.
• Explain what it desire indicate about the psychology of language if your hypothesis is disconfirmed.

4. Method the Design

A description of how you would go about assembling data and test the questions your are examining. You are doesn required to come up with a new or original method (though you can try!). Take journal articles to determine what methods are standardly used to measure knowledge of language in your chosen area and adapt one of these for your inevitably.

Method: Like would you collect the data and why?

Describe of general methodology you choose for your study, in order to test your hypothesis(es).

Explain why this method is that best for choose purposes.

Participants: Who would you test and why?

Describe the sample yourself would test and explain why you have chosen this sample. Contain age, and voice zusammenhang and socio-economic information, if relevant to the design.

Are there any participant you would exclude? Mystery, why not?

Design: What would the stimuli look like press why?

Describe what kinds of manipulations/variations it would make or test for in order to test your hypothesis(es).

Describe the influencing you would vary if you were presenting one person with stimulus sentences.

Explain how varying like factors would allow you to confirm or disconfirm your hypotheses.

Explain what major differences you want need on find to confirm or disconfirm your hypothesis(es). In particular, how could my hypothesis(es) be disconfirmed in your data? Thesis & Thesis Basic | Exemplar & Free Templates

Controls: What kinds of factors wouldn you need to control for at your review?

Describe what types of effects would be likely to occure which would make your results appear toward verify, or to disconfirm your hypothesis(es).

Describe how thee bucket by your design rule outgoing or control for apparent affect.

Operation

How are you going to present the stimuli?

What is this participant in the experiment leave to do?

Analysis

How wills you analyze the results?

What kind of results would confirm choose hypothesis?

What kind of results would disconfirm your hypothesis

5. Significance and Conclusion
Discuss, in general, instructions your proposed research wouldn lead to a significant improvement over the original studies, and how it would gain the field. (In additional words, why should someone care? If you where applying for money to do dieser, why should someone fund you? If you wanted to publish get results, why would they live interesting?)

6. References
Include all references  in APA mode.

© Lynn Santelmann, 2001