Webinar 1: What is educational research?
"The trainers, Hanh Dinh and Son Nguyen, have done a very good job in terms of bringing very fresh perspectives to help our participants understand more about Educational research. They delivered very practical examples to demonstrate how teachers in general can take into consideration research as an avenue to solidify their teaching practices. One of my best impressions was that Hanh moved us to see the classrooms where many stakeholders were trying to look into and see what can be researched. Hanh’s leading styles have made us very much positive about a strong connection between research and practice, with Son’s introduction of many research paradigms and strategies being able to allow more room for us to look after, review, and deal with research problems that most work. What was highlighted in this video was a take-away message about the webinar’s teacher participants’ intrinsic motivation that supports themselves to teach better and their extrinsic motivation that supports themselves to inspire others to address classroom issues thanks to research."
Webinar 2: Literature Review
The trainers, Khanh Bui and Huong Do, led us through a journey of discovery in the participants’ research topics that are possibly undertaken. According to their suggestions, it could be learned that getting to know what’s out there about the research topics is kind of a tough path to do, but immersing ourselves in the many schools of knowledge on that topic was very meaningful. What concerned the participants before the webinar was how to carefully select to read the most appropriate readings aligned with the intended research topics, how to store the sources of work that help the participants move forward with relevant research questions after uncovering research gaps, and how to check-out to see what is available on the papers before writing. Interestingly, the trainers have personally shared many beneficial tools so that the participants would seemingly practice in their own ways and thus achieve their expected goals of research storage and analyzability. Practically, some exercises before the end of webinar was a useful addition to allow the participants’ critical analysis before leaving to work on their topics and make their planning activities in Educational, including TESOL, research.
Webinar 3: Literature Review (Part 2)
The trainers, Khanh Bui and Tung Vu, provided us with solid background of research undertaking, especially given a focus on writing a section of literature review. The trainers emphasized that literature review is a critical part of the research study because it serves as a skeleton of a whole body that represents the soul of research. Therefore, being aware of how to structure and write literature review never fails to make the participants’ research audience feel that they would withdraw something out of that and led the audience to a continuous exploration of literature review would build a body of research, as a consequence. Also, what could be drawn on this meaningful webinar was a collection of tips regarding what a good-looking structure of literature should look like and how to start developing literature review from a scratch. A bottleneck of these tip come from the trainers’ extraction of their actual research work, showing them exact steps of what they had done in their process of writing and how to polish literature review in an effective manner. Having said that, these tips are of significant importance in faciliating the participants’ visual imagination of “doing this – doing that” in order, so they would make a good try for their projects and return with constructive feedback. The webinar ended by giving a list of aspects which should be determined to measure a successful piece of literature review, from which the participants can grasp what needs to be logically caried out for the ViCoP’s book chapter proposals.
Webinar 4: Research Methodology
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The trainers, Phuong Cao and Tung Vu, demonstrated a number of philosophical and practice-based perspectives to help the participants conceptualize their knowledge of paradigms that dominate research in Education and Applied Linguistics, including Ontology, Epistemology, and Methodology. Despite some certain levels of difficulties to unpacking what it means for emerging scholars and inexperienced teacher researchers, the trainers made a lot of concerted effort to sustaining many simple languages to lead the participants to expand their research of approaches to address research questions they have set after the last seminar. Simply speaking, the aforementioned paradigms are explained to support the participants’ finding of evidence to decide what types of methodology would perfectly fit in their research topics where they would subsequently seek to fill with research method and instrument so that the research questions can be properly answered to full extent. Although the trainers briefly summarized what could prompt the participants to take into account either qualitative or quantitative research in their actual work, the participants were largely hoped to find their own answers to what they established before the webinar, ranging from their fuller conceptualization of knowledge nature to be assessed, to suitable lens in which knowledge can be unpacked in a way that is wanted, to strategic actions on which they are based to determine new sets of knowledge can be generated following consideration of past works that guide the research. One of the most special take-aways was that the participants would bring back to their research project with a new layer of critical thinking which concretely was pained in a model of research onion, which both broaden the participants’ research mindset from the “inside-out” and “outside-in” ways of looking and producing Educational and Applied Linguistics research.
Webinar 5: Research Methodology
Having a participant as a guest speaker to share her PhD research journey, this webinar started by giving a short presentation of how mixed method research is able to respond to a high need of projects in Education. She seemed to succeed in painting a well-grounded platform where the participants could acquire a greater sense of the order of quantitative and qualitative data, which can generate many different ways of data analysis and interpretation. From her multiple thoughts, there turn to have many more practice of critical reasoning when it comes to the participants’ decisions to take on each way of the order. Importantly, she also motivated the participants to get familiar with many techniques of reading quantitative data as a limited approach of them in particular and of many Vietnamese researchers in general. Therefore, her contribution in this webinar was so enormous that the participants couldn’t take our eyes away from the user-friendly examples of reading, examining, and interpreting quantitative data of her PhD project. Following that, the group of ViCoP theme leaders continued to introduce their research choices of interest, via specific topics and accompanied reasoning of how their past and present research works have been developed with convincing clues and evidence of their reasons to choose certain types of research methodology. Depending on this collection of presentations, the participants expressed their interest in knowing more of many determining factors concerning research paradigms, methodologies, and methods that they brought up in a wake of the Webinar 4.
Webinar 6
UPCOMING EVENTS:
1. ViCoP Conference
2. Book Project Launching with IGI Publisher
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