Technical Terms Used in Research
Technical Terms Used in Research
Technical Terms Used in Research
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INSTRUCTION:
Write your thoughts or ideas
about the word “RESEARCH.” It
can be in one word or phrase.
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TERMS
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Research
- an organized and systematic
way of finding answers to questions.
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Research Paper
- a piece of academic writing that
provides analysis, interpretation, and
argument based on in-depth
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independent research.
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Abstract
- a short summary of your
completed research.
- intended to describe your work
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Introduction
- the next part after the title and the
abstract.
- leads the reader from a general subject
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Introduction
- it establishes the scope, context, and
significance of the research being
conducted by:
•Summarizing current understanding and
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Introduction
Stating the purpose of the work in the form of
the research problems supported by a
hypothesis or a set of questions.
Explaining briefly the methodological
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Introduction
• Highlighting the potential outcomes your
study can reveal.
• Outlining the remaining structure and
organization of the paper.
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Purpose of the Study
- states the aims and objectives of your
study.
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As a result, the researchers aim to investigate and
determine the effects of English subtitled movies to their
speaking abilities, specifically their vocabulary skills.
Subsequently, the researchers also aim to produce an
output (video instructional material) based on the result
of the survey that will be utilized by the teachers in
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1. How does English Subtitled movies affect the speaking abilities specifically
vocabulary acquisition of students?
2. Is there a significant difference between the students who watched English
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Hypothesis
- a statement of expectation or prediction that
will be tested by research.
- commonly known as the researcher’s
intellectual guess or wild guess about the possible
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Example:
There is no significant relationship
between the exposure subtitled movies and
vocabulary enhancement.
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Literature Review
- provides an overview of sources you have
explored including books, scholarly articles, and
any other sources relevant to a particular issue,
area of research, or theory to demonstrate to
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Literature Review
- provides an overview of current
knowledge, allowing you to identify
relevant theories, methods, and gaps in the
existing research.
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On Difference of With and Without Subtitled Movies
Based on the study of Ebrahimi & Bazaee (2016) students who watch subtitled
movies to learn a foreign language have shown improvement in reading and listening
comprehension, word comprehension, decoding skills, motivation and vocabulary
acquisition.
According to Osbouei (2015), using movies with subtitles to teach a foreign language
can facilitate students’ motivation, solve ambiguity and remove some of the anxiety of the
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Methodology
- the systematic method to resolve a research
problem through data gathering using various
techniques, providing an interpretation of data
gathered, and drawing conclusions about the
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research data.
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Population
- the entire group that you want to draw
conclusions from.
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Sample
- a smaller part or subgroup of the population.
2.) Practicality
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4.) Manageability
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Variable
- any factor, trait, or condition that can be
manipulated, controlled for, or measured in an
experiment.
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Research
Instrument
- any tool that you may use to
collect or obtain data, measure data,
and analyze data that is relevant to the
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Questionnaire
- the main instrument for collecting data in
survey research.
- a set of standardized questions, often
called items, which follow a fixed scheme in
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Data
- any information that has been
collected, observed, generated, or created to
validate original research findings.
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Results
- section of a research paper where the
authors provide the data collected during their
study.
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Discussion
- section of a research paper whose purpose is
to interpret and describe the significance of your
findings in the light of what was already known
about the research problem being investigated and
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Reference
- the last page of a research paper that lists all
the sources used in the study.
- it gives credit to authors you have consulted for
your ideas.
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Appendix
- serves as a space for materials that help
clarify your research, but do not belong in the
main text.
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ACTIVITY
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Directions/Instructions: Underline the
dependent variable and encircle independent variable
on the following research titles. Give the alternative
and null hypothesis of the given research titles: