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  2. Dialectical research - Wikipedia

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    Dialectical research can be seen as a form of exploratory research, in that there is not so much a research hypothesis to be tested, but rather new understandings to be developed. Dialectical research may also be thought of as the opposite of empirical research, in that the researcher is working with arguments and ideas, rather than data ...

  3. Perceptual dialectology - Wikipedia

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    The little arrow method is an early method for comparing regional dialects. In the little arrows method, researchers begin with a general map of a region, often with traditional linguistic dialect boundaries indicated for reference. [5] Then, informants from several sites are asked how similar they believe the language of other sites is to ...

  4. Dialect awareness - Wikipedia

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    Dialect awareness is an instructional approach that teaches basic sociolinguistic concepts to students with the purpose of increasing awareness of language variation and improving language attitudes. An example of this approach is the Voices of North Carolina [ 1 ] (VoNC) curriculum developed by Jeffrey Reaser and Walt Wolfram .

  5. Dialectology - Wikipedia

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    Dialectology (from Greek διάλεκτος, dialektos, "talk, dialect"; and -λογία, -logia) is the scientific study of dialects: subsets of languages.Though in the 19th century a branch of historical linguistics, dialectology is often now considered a sub-field of, or subsumed by, sociolinguistics. [1]

  6. Dialectic - Wikipedia

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    The term dialectic owes much of its prestige to its role in the philosophies of Socrates and Plato, during the fifth and fourth centuries BC. Aristotle said that it was the pre-Socratic philosopher Zeno of Elea who invented dialectic, of which the dialogues of Plato are examples of the Socratic dialectical method. [4]

  7. Educational research - Wikipedia

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    Educational research refers to the systematic collection and analysis of evidence and data related to the field of education. Research may involve a variety of methods [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] and various aspects of education including student learning, interaction, teaching methods , teacher training, and classroom dynamics.

  8. Language pedagogy - Wikipedia

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    Appropedia is increasingly being used to as a method to enable service learning in language education. [ 29 ] [ 30 ] [ 31 ] Computer assisted language learning (CALL) [ 32 ] is a method that includes a combination of methods and techniques using the resources available on the internet, as well as a variety of language learning software.

  9. Wave model - Wikipedia

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    The tree model requires languages to evolve exclusively through social splitting and linguistic divergence. In the “tree” scenario, the adoption of certain innovations by a group of dialects should result immediately in their loss of contact with other related dialects: this is the only way to explain the nested organisation of subgroups imposed by the tree structure.