PROJECT FOR

ENGLISH LANGUAGE
CLASSROOM
Tyndale Program-Level 4
Instructor: Nguyen Thi Hong Hanh, PhD
Tel: 0936588468
 Course instructor

Nguyen Thi Hong Hanh

Senior Lecturer

MA in English Studies – HANU university

MSc in Bk & Fn – ULB-SBSem

PhD in English Language Teaching Methodology at ULIS-VNU, Ha Noi

 Introduction
• Course objectives:

To strengthen the students’ basic research skills and

get them practice those skills;

To strengthen and improve the students’ use of

academic English;

To create among the students self-motivation toward

research and love for researching, thus contributing
in promotion of scientific discoveries among the
young people.
 Learning outcomes

Identify interesting topics and problems potential

for research;

Employ suitable research methods and tools to

conduct a research work individually;

Employ presentation skills to present the research

results in 15 minutes plus Q&A session.

Employ writing skills to write a 3000 - 4000-word

report on their own research.
 Course description

Inputs Outputs
Research skills One research proposal

Report writing skills One 3000-4000 - word

written report on the
research project

Presentation skills 10-15-minute individual

presentation on the
research result
 Timetable

 End of Week 1 – Finalized title/ narrowed topic

 End of Week 2 – Research Proposal
 End of Week 3 – Literature review & Reference
 End of Week 4 – Questionnaires/ Interview questions
 End of Week 5 – Data collection
 End of Week 6 – Data analysis
 End of Week 7 – Report submission & Presentation slides
 Weeks 8-11 – Presentation
 End of Week 11 – Feedback on Report
 Evaluation
• Attendance & progress outcome: 10%
• Written report: 50%
• Presentation: 40%
100%
Notes:
- Total Score counts for 10% of the Final Grade of
Level 4 according to TEG English Program
Assessment Policy
• The final grade must be greater than or equal to
3/10 (to be allowed to attend the final exam)
TODAY
Research
Review
 What is research?
‘conducted to solve problems and expand knowledge’
(Drew (1980: 4)
Find out about the world by:
1. Experience
2. Reasoning
3. Research
 What is research?

• What is your response to the term

‘research’?
• Identify any hopes and fears you have
about being asked to conduct research.
Hopes
Fears
 Research Worldview

• positivist
• interpretivist
 Research Methodology

• Quantitative
• Qualitative
• Mixed methods
 Research Process

1. Research topic identified/question formulated.

2. Research methods selected.
3. Reading and literature review completed.
4. Data collection.
5. Data analysis.
6. Writing up results.
 Structure of a research Report

1. Title page
2. Table of contents
3. Introduction
4. Literature review
5. Research methodology and epistemology/worldview
6. Findings & discussion of your findings
7. Conclusion
8. References
9. Appendices
 Topics

• Student life: love, friendship, leisure, student clubs, part-time

jobs, personal finance
• Education: favorite subjects, study skills, career orientation,
changes/trends, study challenges
• Life: favorite places, problems, leisure, lifestyles, culture,
environment
• Technology: IT roles, social media
• Family: generation gap, relations
• Career: preferences, job market, working environment
• Business: successes and failures, consumer behavior
• Media: behavior, preferences, changes/trends
• Others if applicable
 Focus on Research Topic

• If you like fashion, look at girls’ fashions (at

university/in life) and how they are
influenced by their fashion styles.
• If you like games, look at the benefits and
challenges of playing games among
friends/classmates/teenagers.
• If you like studying English, look at the
benefits of learning English or challenges of
learning English, reasons for those
challenges and methods of English
improvements.
 Focus on Research Title

Step 1: Ask yourself questions

1. What is my research about?
2. What methodology/ design am I going to
use?
3. Who am I going to study?
4. What might be the results of the
research?
 Focus on Research Title

1. What is your research about?

My research is about what students think about
groupwork in studying
2. What methodology/ design am I going to use?
I am going to use Survey Research
3. Who am I going to study?
30 students Intake 18 of IBD programs, at NEU
4. What might be the results of the research?
There might be an improvement on students’
study when they work in groups
 Focus on Research Title

Step 2: List all the key words in the answers of step 1

1. What is your research about?
My research is about what students think about group
work in studying
2. What methodology/ design am I going to use?
Survey Research
3. Who am I going to study?
30 students Intake 18 of IBD programs, at NEU
4. What might be the results of the research?
There will be an improvement on students’ study
when they work in groups
 Focus on Research Title

Step 3: Use all the key words to make a sentence

group work in studying
Survey
30 students Intake 18 of IBD programs, at NEU
Improvement in students’ study

This research is a survey research to find out

whether or not there would be an improvement in
the study of 30 students Intake 18 of IBD program
at NEU when they study in groups.
 Focus on Research Title

Step 4: Create a working title

This research is a survey research to find out
whether or not there would be an improvement in
the study of 30 students Intake 18 of IBD
program at NEU when they study in groups.

A survey research on group work for improving

students’ study of 30 students Intake 18 of IBD
Program at NEU (20 words)
 Focus on Research Title

Step 5: Create a final title

A survey research on group work for
improving students’ study of 30
students Intake 18 of IBD Program at
NEU (14 words)
A survey research on group work for
improving study of students at IBD
Program - NEU (10 words)
 Research Title

1. Object (what the research is about)

2. Data (where are you going to collect data)
3. Perspective (which methodology/theory are
you going to use to conduct research)
Eg: A survey research on group work for
improving study of students at IBD Program –
NEU
 Research Title Checklist

• Does it summarize the main idea of my

proposed research in an exciting way?
• Does it include objects, perspective,
data?
• Will the general public understand it?
• Do I avoid abbreviations?
• Do I use noun phrase?
• Don’t I use a full stop at the end of the
title?
 Research Topic & Title

• Brainstorm topics of your interest

• Select some topics potential for your
research projects

• Make final decision on a topic for Project

• Write a title for your own research