120003 SE MEd 03: SE Applied Research Seminar (2023W)

TITEL: : Inclusion in ELT: researching and supporting individual learning trajectories
This seminar will provide, firstly, a concise overview of research methods in English language learning, teaching and teacher education research in the form of teacher input and short presentations by (pairs of) students. This part will amount to around 25% of the seminar.
Secondly, students will engage actively in learning about and for inclusive English as a Foreign Language (EFL) education; this part will amount to around 75% of the seminar. While diversity covers an immense range of areas, we will focus in this seminar on aspects related to neurodiversity. In focused research projects, students are going to focus on the educational experiences of learners with AD(H)D, Autism, and Dyslexia (or other forms of specific learning differences).
On the level of theoretical engagement, we will explore general issues of creating an inclusive ELT classroom, challenges between standardization, individualization and inclusion, as well as the diverse means in which neurodiversity is considered by diverse groups of people (researchers, educators, neurodivergent individuals, etc.) On a methodological level, students will gain theoretical and practical training in conducting interviews and in qualitative content analysis as a means of making sense of these data.
Through conducting and analysing interviews with stakeholders of inclusive ELT (teachers, students, mentors, experts) in this seminar will gain insights into the specificities of inclusive settings of formal EFL education.