Week 1

DATA SOURCES
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1 hand 2nd hand
Primary research Secondary research
RESEARCH PROBLEM: where to find them?
Writing:
Topic for writing: real life
- Traffic in HCMC
- Traffic congestion on ADV street from 6pm to 7pm
- Cohabitation
 NOT ABOUT THOSE
IT MUST BE FIELD of study: TESOL = ELT
ETCF: the English teacher competencies framework
A research question vs a research hypothesis
Similarity:
Differences:
When to make a RQ? What about RH

1. Would playing an online role-playing game in another language help

students learn Spanish better?
2. Will providing different types of targeted feedback on written work help
students improve in their ability to use grammar accurately?
3. Are people who are good at music better at detecting Chinese tone than
people who are not?
4. Will students learn vocabulary better if they are able to associate them
through multiword expressions rather than just singly?
5. What kinds of phonological problems will Koreans and Japanese learners of
English have?
6. Wharton (2000): Do high-proficiency learners use more language learning
strategies than low-proficiency learners?
 7. Munro, Derwing, and Morton (2006): Does L1 background influence the
way that English learners rate the speech of other English learners for
comprehensibility?
8. Hirata (2004): Does pronunciation training with visual feedback help
learners improve their perception of phonemically contrastive pairs of words
more than training without visual feedback?
9. Proctor, August, Carlo, and Snow (2006): What kind of relationship exists
among an oral language measure and a reading comprehension measure in
English for fourth-grade bilinguals?
10.Bialystok, Craik, Klein, and Viswanathan (2004): Do age and being
bilingual affect the accuracy with which participants perform on the Simon
test (a test that measures whether participants can ignore irrelevant
information)?

11.Wartenburger et al. (2003): Do age of acquisition (AOA) and proficiency

level affect what neural substrates are activated in the brain among different
types of Italian–German bilinguals?
12.Mizuno (1998) hypothesized that there would be a relationship between the
amount of cultural exposure students had before they went overseas and the
amount of cultural exposure they would obtain once they were living in the
country.
13.Larson-Hall (2004): Do learners perform differently in their ability to
perceive phonemic contrasts in nonwords in the second language depending
on their proficiency level and on the sounds that are contrasted?

questions statement
1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,13 12
Research question: try to find out the Research hypothesis: know the
relationship relationship already, try to test
Relationship
Variables:
- Dependent
- independent