LAI 586LEC - Research Methods in Bilingualism and L2 Acquisition

This course presents an introduction to research and evaluation in bilingual and second language education. It focuses on the analysis of selected research and evaluation topics within the context of bilingual education. The first part of the course includes topics to facilitate the understanding of the research process and its components. The research topics are analyzed within the overall context of a frame-work for a research-based journal article. The scientific method serves as a natural vehicle for organizing the research information. The second part of the course focuses on evaluation studies of bilingual education. The evaluation studies include the review and assessment of the methodology of data collection of two major studies to evaluate bilingual education programs such as: The National Longitudinal Study of the Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Services for Language-Minority Limited-English Proficient Students and The Longitudinal Study of Immersion Strategy, Early-exit and Late-exit Transitional Bilingual Education Programs for Language Minority Children.

Credits: 3