This is a nice short intro to mixed methods where you can see Dr Creswell decribing how to use diaries and focus gropus to develop surveys.
Month: June 2018
¿Qué piensa de esta locura en torno a las redes sociales que vivimos hoy día?
Han convertido el hecho de sentirse ofendido, esa indignación estúpida, en toda una industria. La gente que promueve el uso de opiáceos hasta convertirlos en una epidemia a nivel mundial tiene la misma mentalidad que los que desarrollaron estas plataformas. Son el mismo tipo de parásito, traicionan algo que podría ser bueno para la humanidad y lo transforman en algo perverso. Han creado la posibilidad de comunicar cualquier cosa que pienses con extraños, ignorando que los impulsos naturales de mucha gente son acosar, censurar, aprovecharse de las debilidades del otro y propagar información falsa. Y, de paso, ser ciego ante cualquier otra opinión, consideración o decencia. Es lo mismo que envenenar a la gente a propósito. No dudo que estas nuevas formas de comunicación tienen cosas positivas, lo que me da rabia es ver en lo que se convierten. Así que así seguimos. ¡Esto es el progreso!
Fuente: http://www.elmundo.es/metropoli/musica/2018/06/19/5b28b0f0ca4741510d8b45b9.html
Much of what is perceived as natural language has to do with phraseology as informed by frequency effects (Geluso, 2013: 148).
Geluso, J. (2013). Phraseology and frequency of occurrence on the web: native speakers´percepetions of Google-informed second language writing. Computer Assisted Language Learning, 26,2: 144-157.
From Jon Winokur @AdviceToWriters
Repeat the mantra: Writing is when I make the words. Editing is when I make them not shitty.
CHUCK WENDIG (Star Wars author)
Oxford-Cambridge PhD students’ exchange seminar.
Department of Education, University of Oxford. June 1, 2018.
Keynote: Education and learning research in the age of complexity and fragmentation: an introspection
On 1 June 2018 I had the privilege to deliver a keynote on the Oxford-Cambridge PhD in Education exchange. I discussed the impact of the ideas of complexity and fragmentation on my own research and how my PhD students understood complexity.
I came up with a 6-point desideratum that was used as the basis for the ensuing discussion:
(1) Research is becoming more interdisciplinary and discipline boundaries tend to disappear.
(2) Collaboration with other researchers is essential.
(3) Re-examine constantly your ontology and epistemology. I´m in favour of a dynamic ontology / epistemology. Think critically at your work through the eyes of differing epistemologies (and ontology).
(4) Go deeper into the basic foundations of your discipline. But make sure it´s you and not somebody else guiding that reflection and
(5) Explore the limits of your discipline and themes.
(6) Attention is your best asset. Attention needs to be strategic.
Some references used in my talk
Douglas Fir Group (Atkinson, D.; Byrnes, H.; Doran, M.; Duff, P.; Ellis, Nick C.; Hall, J. K.; Johnson, K.; Lantolf, J.; Larsen-Freeman, D.; Negueruela, E.; Norton, B.; Ortega, L.; Schumann, J.; Swain, M.; Tarone, E.) (2016). A transdisciplinary framework for SLA in a multilingual world. Modern Language Journal, 100, 19-47.
Greene, M. T. (2003). What cannot be said in science. Nature, 388(6643), 619-620.
Greene. (2007). The demise of the lone author. Nature, Nature, 2007
Larsen-Freeman, D. (2012). Complex, dynamic systems: A new transdisciplinary theme for applied linguistics? Language Teaching, 45(2), 202-214.
Williams, J. (2018). Stand out of our lights. Cambridge: Cambridge University Conference.
You can download my presentation here.