Statistical Literacy and Production in Language Research
Jonna Marie A. Lim, PhD (St. Scholastica's College, Manila and De La Salle University, Manila)
The objective of the workshop is two-fold: (1) develop the participants’ statistical literacy – their ability to understand quantitative data in language research, through result analysis, and (2) equip them with the knowledge and skills to use fundamental statistics in the different sub-fields of applied linguistics through demonstration and hands-on exercises. Specifically, the workshop will focus on the most common statistical methods and analysis in applied linguistics research articles: one-way ANOVA, t-test, and Pearson correlation. At the end of the workshop, the participants are expected to comprehend statistical results in language research, identify and use the correct statistical test given a research question and its corresponding data, use the JASP software to run basic statistical tests, and interpret the results of these statistical tests.
Jonna Marie A. Lim, Ph.D., is an educator and a BSE Major in English graduate of
Philippine Normal University. She holds a Ph. D. in Applied Linguistics and an
M.A. in Teaching English Language from the De La Salle University, Manila. She
is currently a part –time faculty of the DLSU’s graduate school and the High
School Principal of St. Scholastica’s College, Manila where she started out as
a High School teacher of English, 14 years ago. She is the language trainer of
Chevrolet, Philippines and she recently published a course module on “Purposive
Communication” for Rex Publishing. Her research interests include language
teaching and assessment, sociolinguistics, language acquisition and
psycholinguistics.
Qualitative
Research Methods in Sociolinguistics
Raymund Victor M. Vitorio, PhD (De La Salle University, Manila)
Methodological issues and innovations are integral to the development of
the field of sociolinguistics. While earlier sociolinguistic methods were able
to effectively illustrate the methodological problems of Chomskyan linguistics
(e.g. Labov, 1972), they were consequently criticized for being too
structuralist and positivist. In this workshop, I discuss the place of
qualitative research methods in sociolinguistics. To do this, I first provide a
historical sketch of the key events (or “waves”) in the development of
sociolinguistics that warranted a turn to qualitative methods. I then discuss
several qualitative methods that have become dominant in variationist and
non-variationist sociolinguistic research, such as interactional
sociolinguistics, conversation analysis, linguistic ethnography, discourse
analysis, and narrative analysis. The workshop concludes with a discussion of
the relationship between theory, method, and writing.
Dr. Raymund Vitorio is a full-time faculty at the Department of English
and Applied Linguistics, De La Salle University-Manila. He recently earned his
PhD in Language, Discourse and Communication from the National University of
Singapore and King’s College London. His dissertation investigated the
discursive construction of citizenship in Singapore through linguistic
ethnography, discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, and metapragmatics. His
papers have appeared in international publications, such as in volumes
published by Channel View Publications and the Oxford University Press.