MY OWN ANALYSIS ABOUT THE PREPARATORY STAGE OF RESEARCH

Hello everybody.... 

I was reading the part two "Qualitative Research" from the book the nature of research. In this moment, as many of you, I am working about my research project; for that reason, I consider important this document. It has key concepts that help us as novice researchers.

I would like to share with many of you my brief remarks, conclusions and doubts…It could be a better way to understand this chapter in a meaningful way: 

During our researcher process, we can find some problems related to select a topic, how and where to begin the research, what could the best research question and so on. For those reasons is necessary to follow some steps or a preparatory stages to research. The preparatory stages provide a sense of logical progression, for example: in the first stage, we can formulate a question that can be or cannot be answered within the research. In an intuitive way we can begin to analyze it. 

Do not forget that the question is an important part of the research, to formulate a good question allows researchers to develop the whole project in a better way. 

Researcher has to have the ability to formulate good question for achieving good results. 

In the research process, we have to consider that the question have to contribute, valid and significant the results!!!!!!!! 

As we saw in the introduction part, we can follow some preparatory stages to have a useful research. Now, we are going to see each step in a critical way: 

PREPARATORY STEPS: are the phases that researchers go through initially before researching. In the development of a research project there are four phases:

1.  formulating the general question 
2. Focusing the question

3. deciding on an objective 
4. formulating the research plan or hypothesis
The research could be: 

SYNTHETICALLY: The objective research is to DESCRIBE 

ANALYTICALLY: TEST a hypothesis about second language phenomenon.

1.     Experience and interests:

The general question was born from experience, interests, other research, and sources outside second language class.

Curiosity: It could be understood as the lack of understanding or the questioning about the phenomena. In this case, second language.

Questions for research can derive from: every day experience with language learning, observations, personal language learning, diaries…

Reading other research in language and second language allow research to know about innovation, research questioning, other studies and theories.

·         Research of a theoretical nature: it presents a theory, synthesis of other theories. Research about research.

·         Empirical research: it can be heuristic or Deductive; it is based on data collection.

Sources outside second language acquisition allow knowing that questions can derive from others fields that are not associated with language.

QUESTIONS ARE THE RESULT OF: OBSERVATION, CURIOSITY AND READINGS

I WOULD LIKE TO CLARIFY SOME CONCEPTS ABOUT:

•          CONCEPTUAL AND OPERATIONAL DIMENSION OF SECOND LANGUAGE RESEARCH.
•          DEDUCTIVE
•          HEURISTIC
•          SYNTHETIC
•          ANALYTIC