Content and teaching | Assessment | Availability

Module content and teaching

Principal aims

This module aims to: • Introduce students to basic concepts in research and essential characteristics of effective research. • Introduce a range of data collection methods and analytical options, both quantitative and qualitative, relevant to language, culture and communication. • Familiarise students with ethical issues in research. • Familiarise students with current issues in researching language, culture and communication. • Introduce students to academic conventions, procedures and considerations relevant to study in higher education. • Enable students to develop key communication skills and use these effectively. • Enable students to develop relevant academic skills and deploy these in their work.

Principal learning outcomes

By the end of the module, the student should be able to: Subject knowledge and understanding • Specify the minimum criteria for adequate research. • Identify different approaches to research and the paradigmatic orientations underlying these. • State the criteria, considerations and procedures necessary to ensure that ethical requirements are met. • Identify and describe core methods for collecting data in language, culture and communication. • Describe relevant procedures for analysing data quantitatively and qualitatively. • Identify key issues in research on language, culture and communication. • Demonstrate familiarity with and ability to use appropriately generic features of research designs and procedures found in published research articles. Key skills • Read and critically respond to relevant academic articles and books • Participate in group tasks and discussions • Communicate effectively in English in mixed cultural groups • Show understanding of the ethical dimension in research and respond appropriately to ethical challenges • Plan and manage time effectively Cognitive skills • Formulate precisely focused, answerable questions. • Identify relationships between questions and procedures designed to provide responses to them. • Perform basic calculations and follow specifiable analytical procedures in order to develop responses to specific questions. • Recognise cultural and organisational patterns and signals in written and spoken texts Professional skills • Identify and respond to a professional/intercultural issue or situation requiring further investigation. • Conduct systematic literature reviews by using different search engines and strategies

Timetabled teaching activities

3 hours contact per week in Term 1 plus revision sessions

Departmental link

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/al/study/ba/modules/

Other essential notes

15 CATS

Module assessment

Assessment group	Assessment name	Percentage
15 CATS (Module code: ET120-15)
C (Assessed/examined work)	Assessed Course Work	50%
	Examination - Main Summer Exam Period (weeks 4-9)	50%
	Assessed Course Work	100%

Module availability

This module is available on the following courses:

Core

• Undergraduate Linguistics with French (with Year Abroad) (Q2R1) - Year 1
• Undergraduate Linguistics with German (with Year Abroad) (Q2R2) - Year 1
• Undergraduate Linguistics with Italian (with Year Abroad) (Q2R3) - Year 1
• Undergraduate Linguistics with Spanish (with Year Abroad) (Q2R4) - Year 1
• Undergraduate Linguistics with Portuguese (with Year Abroad) (Q2R5) - Year 1
• Undergraduate Linguistics with Russian (with Year Abroad) (Q2R7) - Year 1
• Undergraduate Linguistics with Chinese (with Year Abroad) (Q2T1) - Year 1
• Undergraduate Linguistics with Japanese (with Year Abroad) (Q2T2) - Year 1
• Undergraduate Linguistics with Arabic (with Year Abroad) (Q2T6) - Year 1
• Undergraduate French Studies and Linguistics (R1Q1) - Year 1
• Undergraduate German Studies and Linguistics (R2Q1) - Year 1
• Undergraduate Italian Studies and Linguistics (R3Q1) - Year 1
• Undergraduate Modern Languages and Linguistics (R9Q1) - Year 1
• Undergraduate Language, Culture and Communication (X3Q5) - Year 1

Optional Core

• Undergraduate Hispanic Studies and Linguistics (R4Q1) - Year 1

Optional

N/A