Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) is interested in the analysis of spoken, written, sign or any other discourse beyond the descriptive level. It is an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary field of study that draws on and inspires other disciplines. Having an emancipatory character, CDA findings are of interest to different practitioners in different fields. In our context, Approaches to Critical Discourse Analysis Course is addressed to Master Two students, and aims at introducing them to six main approaches to CDA. Setting somewhere between form and function, rigidity and dynamicity, these approaches took place to show how to analyze discourse critically. This online course suggests a variety of analytical tools, and directs students to check other ones. Taking Approaches to Critical Discourse Analysis Course is an opportunity for students to check how power relations circulate in social practices, and how discourse, being ideological or non-ideological, constitutes and is constituted by the context. This would prepare them to try out different critical discourse analysis methods in future research.

Description and objectives of the course

The goal of this online course is to help master 2 students learn the essentials needed to carry out the entire research process from identifying their research problem to writing their thesis. By completing this course, students will be able to: Conduct mixed methods research. Identify theories, hypotheses, and methods used in research. Choose a method and apply it in order to answer research questions. Analyse data and communicate the results in an appropriate way

Suggested Bibliography / further readings:

Cohen (2005). Research Methods in Education. 5^th Edition

Creswell, John W(2014). Research Design : Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Methods Approaches. 4th Edition.

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