6. What type of research question is problematic? How to have a successful presentation? Should we apply credit system in HULIS? Is the participation level of second-year students at CFL, VNU in group work satisfactory? What recommendations can be made for the exploitation of humor by teachers in the foreign language classroom?
11. Major reasons for doing literature review For planning Primary research As an end in itself
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14. Literature review in relation to other steps Redefine the scope of research as well as research questions Literature review Provide conceptual frameworks for data collection & data analysis
15. To do good research DON’T NEED TO KNOW EVERYTHING HAVE TO KNOW THE UNKNOWN
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17. Major reasons for doing literature review For planning Primary research As an end in itself
56. Domain Hosts of the site Examples .edu an education institution www.harvard.edu/ .gov a government agency www.nasa.gov/ .net a network related organization www.microsoft.com/net/ .com a commercial organization www.cnn.com/ .org a nonprofit and/or research organization http://www.w3.org/
57. MORE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_name BACK Domain Geographical source Examples .ca Canada www.cbc. ca .uk United Kingdom www.bbc.co. uk / .au Australia www.uq.edu. au / .jp Japan www.japantimes.co. jp / .fr France www.lemonde. fr /
74. What do you need to do? Grouping texts according to the similarities of their ideas or arguments Grouping studies that focus on similar phenomena or share similar methodologies
75. What do you need to do? commenting on the main ideas that feature in each group of texts or studies comparing and contrasting the different studies, methodologies … and identifying for the reader those which have the greatest bearing on your own research indicating which articles, methodologies … will form the basis of your investigations
76. Where do the key points for the literature review come from?
This is to remind Ss of problematic research questions. It can be done by analyzing the research questions provided in Handout B- Lesson Plan 1 by Tống Thị Mỹ Liên (if the activity has not been covered in the previous lesson), or those prepared by the teacher herself, or the ones the teacher has seen during her facilitation of Ss group discussion. Give comments on the following research questions, basing on the two criteria: worth asking and answerable How much do law students know about critical thinking? How do law lecturers rate the necessity degree of having critical thinking instruction in the tertiary curriculum or in their syllabi? Is the participation level of second-year students at CFL, VNU in group work satisfactory? What recommendations can be made for the employment of humor in the foreign language classroom? Should process approach be applied to teaching writing for second-year students at CFL, VNU?
Each step contains a hyperlink. Go to the sites to get some useful information. Positioning the literature review: Understand and clarify the relationships between your research and the discipline/s. Place and justify your research within the discipline/s. Understand the existing literature and how it relates /supports/contradicts your topic.
Ask Ss if they realize how the items in the list are arranged. Tell them that they are arranged in the descending order of assumed relative credibility. Notes: “ the internet” can cover all these types of publication; when it is listed at the end, it refers to other kinds of publications in the internet apart from the above listed. Papers of the same type are not equally creditable. It’s important to study the prestige/ status of the journals, authors & publishers
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