Writing a proposed title outline for undergraduate research

1. This is an instance of how you will write your outline for each proposed topic.
A. Title : Enhancing Listening Skills through Movie Clips on YouTube
Research Background (Why are you interested in investigating this topic?)
“This research investigatesstudents' attitudes towardsusing short English movie and TV series clips on
YouTube to learn English and enhance listening skills. Currently in Thailand, English is a required
subject taught first at the elementary level with the goal of providing students with a basic knowledge of
using English as a foreign language and building on this knowledge at the juniorand high school levels.
At the post-secondary level, English is a required subject for all majors. However, in some universities
such as Rajamanagala University of Technology Srivijaya, Songkhla, Thailand, there are few
opportunitiesfor students to use English in real life situations. This results in a lack of English ability
despite learning English formore than ten years. It is therefore the challenge for teachers of courses such
as English Conversation to improve students’ listening and speaking skills.”
Research Methods (Where will you do this study? Who are the participants and howyou will do the
investigation i.e. Method, instruments, etc?)
“The population are 78 third-year students fromthe Business Administration Faculty enrolled in English
Conversation course. Clips used in this study are chosen based on a selection of skills covered in the
English Conversation course curriculum. Clips and comprehension exercises are uploaded to the
university's Learning Management System(LMS) and students are instructed to log in each week to watch
two clips related to the week's topic and complete the exercises. Students are able to watch the clip as
many times as they wished.In addition,one questionnaire is given after each clip and another given at
the end of the five week project to determine students' attitudes towards their experience in using the
YouTube clips”.
Data Analysis
“Quantitative data is collected by means of the questionnaires. Descriptive results (percentages,
frequency, and mean) were used in analysing the data”.
Reference
Damronglaohapan , S. , Stevenson, E. (2013) Enhancing Listening Skills through Movie Clips on
YouTube Retrieved from: http://iafor.org/archives/offprints/ectc2013-
offprints/ECTC2013_0088.pdf