Wednesday, June 11, 2014

Chapter 2 Development (ii)

Research Objectives: 

1) To investigate the difference of level of emotional expressiveness in narrative composition between learners who are exposed to emotion based language instruction (EBLI) and learners who are not. 

2) To investigate the difference of level of emotional expressiveness in narrative composition between male learners and female learners who are exposed to EBLI. 

3) To investigate the difference of motivation level in composing narrative between learners who are exposed to EBLI and learners who are not. 

4) To investigate the difference of motivation level in composing narrative between male learners and female learners who are exposed to EBLI. 





Hey ho it's Day 2 of organizing my Chapter 2! I've found a theoretical framework for my research :'D Then I've reorganized my subtopics into something like this:


Chapter 2: Literature Review


2.2       Emotion and Language
2.2.1    The role of language in emotion
2.2.2    The role of emotion in language
2.2.3    Emotion in second language learning

2.3       Emotion in Narrative
2.3.1    Practices in ESL writing instruction
2.3.2    Emotional narrative as a means to express
2.3.3    Emotional narrative as a means to teach writing skills

2.4       Emotion and Gender
2.4.1    Gender difference in types of emotions
2.4.2    Gender difference in emotional intensity
2.4.3    Gender difference in emotional expression
2.4.4    The role of culture in determining gender difference in emotions

2.5       Emotion and Motivation
2.5.1    The role of emotion in motivating learning 

From here on, I'll put some past research, which is of course, according to the subtopics too. Please let me know if these subtopics are okay @ necessary @ sufficient to justify my research.

Finally, I've found that my research is parallel to Ivan Pavlov's theory of classical conditioning. Although the theory was first introduced to support behaviorism, some researchers believe that emotions are artificial responses that can be triggered by certain stimuli. The simplest example will be: a horror movie (stimulus) will surely trigger fear in you, right? :)

So, what if emotion-based language instruction (stimulus) triggered emotional expressiveness (response 1) and learning motivation (response 2)? 

Epiphany!

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