一、时间

2016年11月10日 （星期四）下午14:00-16:00
二、地点

重庆大学虎溪校区外国语学院501学术会议厅
三、主题

Research Processes for Investigating the Effectiveness of Classroom Practice （课堂实践有效性探索的研究程序）
四、主讲嘉宾

Emma Marsden博士，英国约克大学

主讲嘉宾介绍

Emma Marsden has been Senior Lecturer at the University of York UK since 2011. She completed an MA, PhD and post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Southampton, UK. Her expertise includes the acquisition of morphosyntax and grammar teaching. With her collaborators, she has carried out many classroom and laboratory studies investigating how learners process the input and the extent to which such processing can be manipulated and combined with explicit information to improve learning. Emma also publishes and leads funded projects on research methods, experimental design, and transparency. She is director of IRIS, the international repository for research materials in second language research. IRIS makes over 700 data collection tools openly available and provides a focal point for evaluating research methods in SLA. Emma has also driven forward open collaboration via international multi-site replication. She is Associate Editor of Language Learning, co-author of a popular text book Second Language Learning Theories, and has published research in journals such as Second Language Research, The Modern Language Journal, Language Learning, and Studies in Second Language Acquisition. Emma started her career as a French and Spanish teacher in a secondary school in the UK, and has taught English in France, Spain and Chile. She is now active in communicating research to teachers, teacher educators and policy-makers, and has held invited advisory roles for national language education policy.

内容简介
This talk will provide attendees with practical insights into the research process: from the formulation of useful and answerable research questions that are informed by relevant learning theories, through to the design of data collection instruments and the practicalities of collecting and analysing data, ending in the interpretation and dissemination of findings. The talk aims to provide some inspiration about potential investigations into issues of relevance to EFL teachers in Higher Education, such as research into collaborative classroom activities, autonomous learning, the flipped classroom, and speaking practice.

In particular the talk will focus on the extent to which different research designs help to determine the effectiveness of teaching. For example, guidance will be given about experimental research designs and how to calculate an effect size, an important yet simple measure of the size of change. Examples of research tools will be drawn from IRIS (www.iris-database.org). The aim of the session is to increase attendees’ awareness and understanding of the different kinds of evidence that can be used to inform pedagogical decisions.