Information about M2 research projects

1. Shona Whyte
Research projects M2 MEEF
December 2014

2. ESPE meeting 10 Dec 14
❖ for students with any non-education M2, no evaluation is
required for semester 1 EXCEPT tronc commun
(décrochage/violence etc + GOAL (Shona))
❖ TC: one paper on a randomly allocated topic (+ rattrapage)
❖ GOAL: 4 activities on weebly blogs
❖ TC + GOAL work due: 12 January 2015
❖ EFOR platform only visible to tutors/tutees : send
everything to whyte@unice.fr

3. –John Fanselow
“Three pieces of advice to new ESOL teachers would be
1. believe nothing you read about what you should and
should not do in your teaching;
2. believe nothing you read or hear about what your
students can and cannot do;
3. audio and video tape interactions in your classes and
observe and analyze the interactions from as many
perspectives as you can, over and over again, making
changes in the interactions and observing the different
consequences.”
http://www.eslminiconf.net/september/fanselow.html

4. Research paper: content
Research method
1. define a research question (problematisation)
2. collect data
3. analyse and interpret findings

5. Research report format
❖ In English, with French-English glossary
❖ 20-30 pages (4-6000 words), double-spaced, 12 pt, table
of contents, page numbers

6. Research report evaluation
❖ public oral defence with tutor(s) and other Masters
students
❖ 15 minute presentation, 15 minutes for questions
❖ evaluation on quality of project, write-up and
presentation/discussion.

7. Research report structure
❖ abstract
❖ keywords
❖ introduction
❖ background or literature review
❖ method (participants, classroom context, data collection)
❖ analysis/results/discussion
❖ conclusion,
❖ references (APA format, as in the present document)
❖ appendices (lesson plans, research instruments)

8. APA style
❖ http://www.apastyle.org/
❖ tutorial: http://flash1r.apa.org/apastyle/basics/
index.htm

9. Ethical research
❖ transparency and dissemination
❖ permission of head/teacher/learners
❖ anonymisation of data and publication

10. Topics
❖ videoconferencing
❖ use of L1
❖ group/pair work
❖ evaluation/testing
❖ iPads
❖ motivation
❖ listening comprehension

11. Research resources
❖ Guidelines https://sites.google.com/site/
mateachenglishnice/programmes/m2/m2-research-
paper/guidelines
❖ DropBox
❖ TELT: http://scoop.it/t/telt