This document discusses selecting a research topic and provides sources and areas to consider. It lists some basic questions to ask like whether the problem is significant, researchable, interesting, new, and clear. Sources of research problems include issues in the classroom, technology changes, academic experiences, and readings. Specific problem areas are then outlined covering topics like programmed instruction, television instruction, evaluations, field trips, facilities, programs, and more. Finally, it lists types of research like descriptive methods involving surveys and comparisons, as well as experimental methods like true experiments and action research.

1. SELECTING RESEARCH TOPIC
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2. SOME BASIC QUESTIONS
1. Is the problem significant to solve ?
2. Is the problem researchable?
3. Is the topic interesting to the
researcher?
4. Is the problem new and original?
5. Is the problem specific and clear?

3. SOURCES OF RESEARCH PROBLEM
1. Problems confronted in the classroom,
school and the community:
• How is learning Material presented?
• To what extent does one method yield more effective
result?
• How do teachers feel about these procedures
• How do pupils and parents feel about these?
• What out-of-school activities and influences seem to
affect students and the teaching learning process?

4. 2. Technology changes and curriculum
development
- innovations on teaching by using ICT
- new techniques, methods, approaches,
3. The graduate academic experience
classroom lectures, class discussion,
seminar reports, and exchanges of
ideas.
4. Reading assignment in textbook, special
assignment, research reports and term
papers, research journals.

5. 5. Helpful consultation with course instructor and advisor.

6. SOME PROBLEMS AREAS
TO DEFINE RESEARCH
PROBLEMS
Programmed instruction-scrambled text-teaching machines-computer
assisted instruction
Television instruction-closed circuit
Team Teaching
Evaluation of learning-practices

7. Field trips in English class
School Building and facilities
Extracurricular programs
Students out-of-school activities-employment-recreation-cultural
activity-reading-television viewing.

8. Teacher out of school activities-employment-recreation-
The open classroom in english class
Text analysis :written –spoken texts
Discourse analysis
Literary analysis
New approaches to English teaching

9. Language laboratories-foreign languages-
Language skills :listening, speaking, reading and writing
Textbooks content analysis
Audiovisual programs
Preservice education of teachers-student teaching
In-service programs

10. Follow-up of graduates-early school leavers
Comparison of the effectiveness of two teaching methods/procedures
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11. Case study
Socioeconomic status and academic achievement
Perceptions on the teaching quality
The effect of …. on English achievement

12. TYPES OF RESEARCH
Descriptive methods:
 Correlational study
 Survey
 Classroom interaction
 Discourse
 Comparative study

13. EXPERIMENT METHODS
True experiment
Quasi experiment

14. Classroom Action research
Research and Developement