混合方法研究的范式基础与设计要素被引量：11

The Paradigm and Design Issues in Mixed Methods Research

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摘要混合方法研究在包括应用语言学在内的社会科学研究领域已广泛使用,但其范式基础和设计要素一直是争议颇多的话题。本文通过批判性文献回顾,探讨混合方法范式基础争论中的主要思想——实用主义和辩证观点的各自价值和问题所在,提出研究方法的独立性和自主性是混合方法研究的真正基础,而过分强调范式反而违背了方法自由的本质和混合方法"释放研究冲动"的初衷。在研究设计方面,本文提出混合方法研究设计中研究者需要着重考虑的因素包括质化成分和量化成分在研究中所占比重,质化和量化资料/数据的搜集顺序,以及研究过程中性、量发生结合的阶段;强调混合方法研究中不必非有一个核心方法,质化成分和量化成分在研究中占据同等比重既具有理论可能又有实践先例;指出性、量结合可以发生在研究过程的不同阶段,然而性、量结合阶段的抉择对研究者而言并非易事,因为它涉及性、量差别这个由来已久的争议话题。 In spite of its wide use in many of the social sciences including applied linguistics and education, Mixed Methods Research（MMR） remains an area where scholars do not agree on many basic issues. The paradigm and design issues are among the most disputed. Through a critical review of the literature, this paper discusses and critiques some of the most important propositions on MMR＇s paradigmatic foundations including pragmatism and the dialectic stance. It suggests that it is the autonomous and independent nature of research methods that provides the foundation for MMR, and that an over-emphasis on paradigmatic issues does no credit to the idea that methods are free and the advocacy that MMR is about ＂the freeing of the investigative impulses＂. This paper also discusses the major factors or dimensions that a researcher needs to consider in the design of MMR. These factors include the priority or dominance given to qualitative or quantitative components, the implementation or sequence of data collection, and the stage of integration. It argues against the idea that there needs to be a core method in MMR because equal priority is both theoretically possible and practically successful. It suggests that in MMR integration can take place at different stages of the inquiry process, yet the decision on where to integrate is a difficult one for the researcher to make as it may involve questions on qualitative/quantitative distinctions, which are inevitably open to debate.

作者张培

机构地区天津财经大学

出处《中国外语》 CSSCI 2010年第4期98-103,共6页 Foreign Languages in China

关键词混合方法研究研究范式研究方法研究设计 mixed methods research research paradigm research methods research design

分类号 H0-06 [语言文字—语言学]

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