Comparative research dissection on post-COVID19 language learning

This assignment is a comparative research dissection that analyzed two scholarly articles that examined post-COVID19 language learning using different approaches. The goals of the assignment was to:

• learn how to dissect and understand academic research articles,
• explore how different methodologies shape the production of knowledge within a shared research area, and
• build a foundation for a literature review by comparing the articles’
  • contexts
  • objectives
  • assumptions
  • theoretical frameworks
  • data collection and analysis techniques
  • findings and interpretations
• serve as a starting point for the final research proposal outline assignment

This assignment was written for a graduate research methods course at the University of Toronto and follows a specific format for marking purposes. The full assignment is included below as a writing sample: