Dr. Frank Boers - Effect-of-instruction Studies (Pecha Kucha)

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Effect-of-Instruction Studies: A Quick Guide to Getting the Desired Outcome - Pecha Kucha by Dr. Frank Boers at the 2012 KOTESOL International Conference held at Sookmyung Women's University in Seoul, South Korea.

Overview

Effect-of-instruction studies, a.k.a. intervention studies, typically compare learning gains obtained under two or more instructional methods, with one of these methods being championed by the researcher. Unfortunately, the researcher's personal beliefs and the desire to publish can all too easily skew the design of such studies.

Bio

Frank Boers is an Associate Professor at the School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies of Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. His initial research interests were in the field of lexicology and semantics. His work has appeared in journals such as Applied Linguistics and Language Teaching Research, and he is co-author of Optimizing a Lexical Approach to Instructed Second Language Acquisition (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009).