A Critical Evaluation of an Empirical Study

A Critical Evaluation of an Empirical Study
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A Critical Evaluation of an Empirical Study
Some authors tend not to employ better strategies of empirical studies. Therefore, I will seek to underscore if the article's author listed below used an efficient method. The interview method of data collection was the methodology used in the article. It is an old social science approach. Sociologists and anthropologists have consistently given interview respondents a series of informal inquiries to obtain knowledge from the commencement of their research areas.
 
ICC Research: The article I seek to evaluate is "Multilingualism as legitimate shared repertoires in school communities of practice: Students' and teachers' discursive constructions of languages in two schools in England."
 
Are there studies done before the research was evaluated? In the last 30 years, the EAL study has concentrated chiefly on two connected concerns involving the role of English and the language background in bilingual children's education. For instance, one is related to the relationship between EAL learners' English proficiency and academic accomplishment, significant policy consequences.
 
Findings: The results suggest that EAL students are enthusiastic about English. This attitude compared with their aversion to using and discussing their native tongue, which they made due to language forfeiture and worry of being ridiculed. Teachers' perspectives regarding languages were equally divided, with resource sharing from "open custom of languages" to "limited custom of home language" to "use of English alone." According to the article, multilingualism can also be theorized as genuine standard bodies of work of educational professional learning communities. Implications of the findings are suggested, implying that the views of teachers and students should be heard and incorporated into school language guidelines. The outcomes of this well-established piece of research clearly show that EAL procedures in schools vary considerably.
 
Methodology: The study covered two schools in England, a secondary and a primary school. The institutions' characteristics were not similar to establish a varied group of participants (Pan, 2012). All interviews were held on the school grounds and lasted about 30–40 minutes each in accommodating schedule changes (Hutchby & Wooffitt, 2008). Two different research aides managed to interview either singly or in pairs. The conversations were primarily semi-structured, and the subjects were informed of plenty of opportunities to express themselves (Delarue et al., 2008). The interviews were initially documented verbatim and distributed to the study committee for review (Mortensen & Wagner, 2012). Concepts were shared at scheduled meetings, which led to the subsequent data analysis stage with N-Vivo.
 
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Furthermore, looking on the strengths of the methodology: the researchers needed to ask open-ended, probing inquiries and want to know each person's particular ideas in the study group; therefore, using a semi-structured interview system (Mori, ...