PROJECT FOR

ENGLISH LANGUAGE
CLASSROOM
Input 2:
- Research Process
 Warm up
• For 15’, work in pair and share your
experience in doing a research- what
did you do? How? Your difficulties?
• What are some steps you are going to
do to fulfill your research?
The Simple Research
Process
Purpose of the Defining the problem
Research and research objectives

Plan of the Developing the plan for

Research collecting information
Performance of the Implementing the
Research
research plan
Processing of
Research data
Analyzing the data

Preparation of Interpreting and

Research report reporting the findings
 Step 1
• Identify Purpose of the research
project (from problems, interest)
• Identify Subject area of the
research project
• Narrow down into the Topic and form
the Title of the research project
• Raise some specific research
question(s) to form subtopics
Determine Your Purpose

• Determine your primary purpose

– To Inform
Inform
• Teach
Persuade
• Define
Entertain
• Illustrate
• To Clarify/Explain
– To Persuade
– To Entertain
• Determine Specific Purpose
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Identify research types
and purposes

•Gathers preliminary information

Exploratory that will help define the problem
Research and suggest hypotheses.

Descriptive •Describes the existing

Research things/events/situations...

Causal •Test hypotheses about cause-

Research and-effect relationships.

Reynolds, 1971
 Narrowing down your
Topic
• Why?
• How?
 Narrowing down your
Topic
• Why?
– Your time
– Your energy
– Your money….
• How?
– By narrowing down the subject
– By narrowing down the time
– By narrowing down the area….
Select and Narrow Your
Topic
Guidelines for Selecting a Topic
• Consider the Audience
– Interests
– Expectations
– Knowledge
• Consider the Occasion
• Consider Yourself

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Select and Narrow Your
Topic
Narrowing the Topic – Example

Languages
English
Ways to learn English
3 ways to learn listening English skills

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 How? Topic???
• Getting ideas: lists of references,
suggestions of your teacher, ability
to collect data
• Techniques: narrowing the objects,
methods from existing topics;
problems; extending the applications;
providing more implicatures
 More Example
• Type and Purpose:
– Descriptive - Informative
• Topic: From Problem
• Sub-topics:
– Students’ hobbies
– IBD students’ hobbies
• Research Questions:
– What are popular hobbies among students?
– What are popular hobbies among IBD
students?
– Is there a difference between IBD students’
hobbies and those of average students?
 Research Questions:
Good or Bad? Why?
• Should the Government support corporate
in economic recession period?
• Should the MOET interferes educational
issues? (extra learning)?
• How to improve competitiveness of the
NEU?
• And… your class’s copyright@
 Research Questions
• RQs focus on NEW and SPECIFIC
information (Management Qs focus on
problem solving)
• RQs focus on variables and their
relationships (MQs orient decisions of
managers)
• RQs base on theoretical base (MQs base
on real context)
• RQs have high reliability (effects of MQs
base on how the managers apply)
 Research Questions:
Example
• Do students attending extra classes study
better than those who don’t?
• Why do teachers organize extra classes?
• What is a tendency in sending children to
extra classes?
• What are some factors affecting
competitiveness of a company?
 RQ- Practice
• Change the following MQ into a RQ:
“Nâng cao tính khách quan trong chấm
thi vào Đại học”
 Identifying Variables
• Controlled variables: These are the things
that are kept the same throughout your
experiments.
• Independent variable: The one variable that
you purposely change and test.
• Dependent variable: The measure of change
observed because of the independent
variable. It is important to decide how you
are going to measure the change.
 Hypothesis
-Based on the research you have done, you
will be writing an answer or solution – your
best educated guess – to your question.
-Make sure you write down your hypothesis
before you begin your experiment.
-Hypothesis will be tested to ACCEPT or
REJECT
 Materials
• Type a detailed list of the items you
needed to complete your
experiments.
• Be specific about the amounts used.
 Where to find
information
• Libraries and Information Centers
• Internet
• Newspapers, Magazines
• Interview, Surveys, Questionnaires
 Libraries
• NEU Library
• Libraries of other universities
• Public Libraries
 Information Centers
• Vietnam Development Information Center
63 Ly Thai To http://www.vdic.org.vn/
• Asian Development Bank
23 Phan Chu Trinh http://www.adb.org/vrm/
• UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME
25-29 Phan Boi Chau
http://www.undp.org.vn/ehome.htm
• Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA)
16th Floor, Daeha Business Center
360 Kim Ma Street (beside Daewoo Hotel)
http://www.jica.go.jp/vietnam/about/office.html
 Internet
• Search engines: http:// www.google.com
• Encyclopedias: http://en.wikipedia.com
• News: http://news.yahoo.com,
http://news.google.com,
http://vietnamnews.vnagency.com.vn
• Government: http://www.gov.vn
• NGOs: http://www.fetp.edu.vn – Economic
research about Vietnam,
http://www.worldbank.org.vn
 Procedure
• List all of the steps used in
completing your experiment.
• Remember to number your steps.
• Add photos of your experiments.
 Data/Observations
• It is easier to understand the data if
it is put into a table or graph. Create
a graph in Microsoft Excel and
import it there.
• Make sure all data is clearly labeled.
 Conclusion
- Type a brief summary of what you
discovered based on the results of your
experiments.
- You need to indicate whether or not
the data supports the hypothesis and
explain why or why not.
 Works Cited
Be sure to include print and electronic
sources and put them in alphabetical
order.
- Journal/ research title:
- Main ideas:
- Source:
 Now you…
• On your own, you identify the
followings:
– Research type and purpose
– Research topic and specific areas
– Research questions

(Consider some topics and comment)

 Detailed Planning

• What when where how?

• Hourly, Daily, Weekly, monthly
 Planning: Gantt chart

WORKING PLAN

                           

Time

Week 1 Week 2

Tu Tu Fr
No. Work Mon e Wed Thu Fri Mon e Wed Thu i

1 Library search                    

Design
2 questionnaire                    

3                          
 Elements of a Research
Proposal
• Title: Narrowed title
• Statement of the problem: clear; concise; from
general to detail
• Theoretical framework: basic theory to base on
• Rationale: tasks to be completed; simple terms
• Source and research method: Using indirect speech;
detail methods; which source will be collected and how.
• Preliminary outline: well-organized ideas; ranked;
supports main ideas
• Work plan: Schedule for complete the research
 Homework
• Send me by email this week
– Proposal (after refined)
– Tentative plan