THESIS DEFENSE QUESTIONS AND TIPS

TITLE: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF LANGUAGE ATTITUDE AND PROFICIENCY OF

VARIOUS GENDERS TOWARDS ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNING
1. What is your Research Proposal about?
- You need to give a quick summary or the main idea of your research or the purpose of your
study. The answer of these will came from what you have been written on your chapter 1. Just
summarize the highlights of your study

2. What’s your statement of the problem? (How you came up with them?)
- Make sure that the organization is in a logical sequence it much better if you can memorize
and understand it. Those are the questions you need to answer when your about the conduct
your study.

3. What are the variables in your study?

-Example:

Title: Quantifying the Frequency of Cancel Culture Incidents on Tiktok to Filipino Content
Creator’s Mental Health
Independent Variable- Cause (Frequency of Cancel Culture Incidents on Tiktok)
Dependent Variable- Effect (Filipino Content Creator’s Mental Health)

Explanation: Because the Frequency of Cancel Culture Incidents on Tiktok can affect to the
Filipino Content Creator’s Mental Health

Remember to take notes the tips and suggestions of your teachers so to the next defense it would
be easy for you.

4. What are the bases of your recommendations?

- In here, OPINIONS ARE NOT ALLOWED!!!
- The ideal answer regarding this is depends on the revealed results of your findings. And if
you see the weakest points of your research that can make research, then write it on your
recommendations.

5. Why did you use Qualitative or Quantitative Method?

- You are using Quantitative method if you want to measure the variables systematically and
you want to test a hyphothesis.
- You are using Qualitative method if you wanna explore ideas, thoughts and meanings.

6. Is your Instrument Adopted or Researcher-made? Why?

- You need to explain if you adopted a questionnaire from a previous study and you need to
justify why are their study and your study highly similar that’s why you adopted it. It can just
have a different setting, stakeholders, but the findings you both want to get is just the same.
- But if you create your own questionnaire, you need to justify why the data gathering is much
better if if you develop your own questionnaire.
7. Why did you conduct this study? (What prompted you to conduct this study?) What motivated
you to undertake this research?
- You will propose in this the research gap or the actual problem scenario.
- You need to prove that your topic is research worthy and to show that the recent research
related to your topic is not enough.

8. What are the significant findings of your study?

- The answers regarding this can be on chapter 4 or chapter 5
- Just your key findings that are inline with your statement of the problems.

9. How did you gather your data?

- The answers regarding this are on the sources of your data
- Is it a test?, interview?, structures?, semi-structured?, or questionnaire checklist?

10. What are the limitations and the weaknesses of your study?
- This are the things that possibly affect the results of your study.
- Ex: did you had a limited respondents?
- Ex: your conducting a study in the school and you didn’t include the teachers just the students
- Just those factors that affected the results of your study.

11. What contributions does this study yield? (What possible contributions can this study yield?)
- Where would this be helpful to the teachers? to the students?
- Would this be helpful to develop a training module?

12. What theory can you anchor this study?

- Earliest now you should prepare a theory.
- Know the theory (theory itself), theorist (the person who came the theory), main argument
(the highlight statement of the theory)

13. What is your research gap? (What gaps you intend to bridge with you research?)
- The answer regarding this came from knowing what the specific problem is you are trying to
solve.
- Read enough articles that will show that there is a real limitation of a study that need to
conduct.

14. What is your research all about?

- You need to give a clear and concise summary of the main idea and purpose of your study.
- The answers regarding this are just what you have written on your chapter 1, summarize them
and highlight the importants ONLY!!!

15. Why did you choose this study?

16. What is the scope of your study?
17. Why is your research important in this area?
18. Who will be interested in your research?
19. What are the implications of what you have found for society in general?
20. Why did you choose this research methodology?
21. Would you discover something else if you had used a different approach?
22. How do you know that what you have found is correct?
23. How will your findings contribute to the related area of knowledge?
24. Did you experience any limitations in your research?
25. What would you suggest as future research and why?
26. What advice would you give if you could go back to the beginning of your research?
27. What is the background of your study?
28. How is your theory or concept relevant to your study?
29. How did you formulate your S.O.P?
30. What is the importance of your study?
31. What is the limitation of your study?
32. What method or technique did you used?
33. Who are your respondents?
34. Discuss the population and sample of your study?
35. What instrument did you use?
36. What tool did you use?
37. How do you plan to gather your data?
38. What is your rationale?

RESEARCH TITLE DEFENSE AND TIPS

1. RESEARCH GAP
- Your proposed title must have addressed something research gap.
- (justify that there is a not enough knowledge on a specific area or topic to show that there is a
need to conduct a study about that)

2. BE PREPARED
- Prepares at least 3 theories about your study (brief rrl, you should know your timeline how
you will conduct your study and anticipate possible questions) prepares your answer ahead.

3. RATIONALE
- Rationale of the study, last paragraph of the introduction
- Reason? = choose?
- Because our respondents are students also like us that has been affected that is why it is the
reason why we choose this study
- Or this problem is updated that is why we choose this study.

4. Focus on the problem/ issues being investigated.

5. Don’t be too creative for your presentation.
6. Apply the 7-word rule for each bullet point.
- It should not be more than 7 words.
- Don’t copy paste a paragraph from your thesis that you will put on your presentation.
7. Take notes about the suggestions of your panelist, how will you do it next time and write
what you need to write or to take note.

PRESENTATION BASIC FORMAT

1. Slide 1
➢ Research Title
➢ Name (Include your course and year level, institution/ school)

2. INTRODUCTION
➢ Introduce your topic- include important concepts.
➢ Legal bases
➢ Research Gap
➢ Background of the study
➢ Problem scenario
➢ Observations natin

3. STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM

➢ Make sure to arrange this in a logical sequence.

4. HPOTHESIS/ ASSUMPTIONS
➢ Based on SOP

5. RRL
➢ Highlight Main Points

6. THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
➢ Theory and Theorist
➢ Main arguments of the Theory
➢ Relevance to the study

7. CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK
➢ Show how variables are connected.

8. RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
➢ Research Design
➢ Sampling
➢ Data Collection
➢ Data Analysis