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Finding a Research Topic or a classroom project topic
Fear of Topic Selection Your topic should be...
Innovative Exciting Interesting Current Attractive
Things to Consider
What kind of job are you interested in?
Listening, speaking, pronunciation, CLIL,
culture, teachers-to-be?
What are your strengths? weaknesses?
Teaching, reading, writing?
What drives you? bores you?
Technology, strategies, applications,
interdisciplinary, behavior, learning
Ways to Find a Topic
1) I have an idea! Is it researchable? Is it doable? Can you find enough information?
2) Testing the waters! Find opinions about you idea from
different perspectives. Explore the field you are interested in.
3) Make up your mind! From collected information, find the
area of interest that is more appealing for you.
4) The Stapler Model You work on a number of small topics
that turn into a series of conference papers
You figure out somehow how to tie it all together, create a chapter from each paper, and put a big staple through it
5) Post-it now! Save sources, pages, for the
reference list. Found something interesting? Post-it
now, so you don't forget.
Select a topic that interests you
Read through background information
Start making a list of key words
Write out your topic as a statement and select the
main concepts
Start making a list of words to describe your topic
IN BRIEF