Educational guide 2026_27
Facultade de Filoloxía e Tradución
Máster Universitario en Estudios Ingleses Avanzados y sus Aplicaciones
 Subjects
  Linguistic Research Methods and Resources and their Application to the English Language
   Contents
Topic Sub-topic
1. Linguistic data and data collection. 1.1. Types of linguistic data.
1.2. Data collection methods: grammaticality judgements, corpora, elicitation, interviews, surveys and experiments.
1.3. Designing a questionnaire.
2. Ethically conducted research. 2.1. Responsibilities towards participants, colleagues and society.
2.2. Ethical dilemmas.
2.3. Responsible use of AI tools in linguistic research.
3. The process of planning and writing research. 3.1. Planning and structuring. Quantitative and qualitative methods.
3.2. Sections in a paper or dissertation: Introduction, Background & Scope, Data & Methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusion.
3.3. Drafting a research proposal.
4. AI tools in linguistic research. 4.1. Refine your research question(s) or hypothesis: types of research questions.
4.2. Summarize available research.
4.3. Find relevant research.
4.4. Revise and edit drafted research.
4.5. Present the research.
5. Academic conventions: style, referencing and writing an abstract. Avoiding plagiarism in the age of AI. 5.1. Academic style and conciseness. Notational conventions.
5.2. Academic integrity.
5.3. Referencing in Linguistics.
5.4. Drafting an abstract.
6. Literature research and library/online resources for linguistic research. 6.1. How to search databases, library catalogues, etc.
6.2. Introduction to main websites, software, AI tools, reference grammars, etc.
6.3. Approaches to the Literature Review.
Universidade de Vigo            | Reitoría | Campus Universitario | C.P. 36.310 Vigo (Pontevedra) | Spain | Tlf: +34 986 812 000