This course will present objectives, features, and commonly-used strategies of qualitative, quantitative and mixed-method research for Year-four undergraduate students in Chinese Education. This course aims to build students’ awareness and ability to understand, interpret, and apply different research approaches in authentic educational contexts and prepare them for conducting empirical studies at a later stage. At the same time, students are expected to understand and apply pedagogy of Chinese education through conducting action research.

CILO-1: Identity procedures for conducting an educational study CILO-2: Articulate researchable issues in education CILO-3: Locate published literature in relation to a given topic CILO-4: Distinguish between qualitative and quantitative paradigms of educational research CILO-5: Read, summarize, and evaluate qualitative and quantitative studies regarding their methodologies and findings