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BA thesis, EFL or Linguistics

BA thesis, EFL or Linguistics. Choosing a topic: Please think about these questions, even if you’ve got a topic already. What has interested you particularly in your EFL or Linguistics studies?.

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BA thesis, EFL or Linguistics

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  1. BA thesis, EFL or Linguistics Choosing a topic: Please think about these questions, even if you’ve got a topic already

  2. What has interested you particularly in your EFL or Linguistics studies? What has struck you (regarding language and language acquisition) in your teaching practicals, tutoring, au-pairing or studies abroad, for example ? What stands out for you in your own L2 biography so far (epiphanies - hurdles - good/bad experiences)?

  3. Have you got non-EFL or non-Linguistics interests that could be turned into a topic? e.g. • Your other subject in your BA studies (think CLIL)! • Hobbies, pursuits, obsessions • Jobs, training, areas of expertise outside university, e.g. • omusic, film, theatre, fiction, fashion • o games (online games, board games, parlourgames) • o sport, travel, technical skills, activism • o WHAT ELSE???

  4. How could the following topics or research questions be narrowed down? How can the constructs be operationalised? How feasible might such a study be? How effective are teachers’ corrections in the classroom? Do monolingual and bilingual learners pronounce English differently? Can students acquire a second language successfully at school? Are attitudes to English-German bilinguals at school different to attitudes to other bilinguals?

  5. Vital information from the Lili Prüfungsamt: http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/lili/studium/pruefungsaemter/bachelor/downloads.html http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/lili/studium/pruefungsaemter/bachelor/bachelorarbeit-neu.html

  6. Dörnyei, Zoltán. (2010). Questionnaires in second language research. Second language acquisition research series : Monographs on research methodology (2. ed.). New York: Routledge. Dörnyei, Zoltán. (2007). Research methods in applied linguistics. Oxford applied linguistics. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Brown, James Dean & Rodgers, Richard. (2006). Doing second language research. Oxford handbooks for language teachers. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press. Seliger, Herbert W. & Shohami, Ilanah (1989). Second language research methods. Oxford English. Oxford : Oxford Univ. Press. Mackey, Alison, & Gass, Susan M. (Eds.). (2012). Research methods in second language acquisition. Guides to research methods in language and linguistics ; 3 (1. ed.). Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.

  7. Please use APA (or some other author-date system) for the citations and references (only! Ignore the other APA rules!) when writing in TEFL or Linguistics On using in-text citations: http://www.uefap.com/writing/writfram.htm https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/02/ https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/03/ References (the list of sources cited in the text): Yup, the list is called “References”: it uses the author-date format and sentence-case –what does that mean? https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/05/ https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/06/ (etc.) Nifty! Purdue OWL citation style chart https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/949/01/ Avoiding Plagiarism http://www.uefap.com/writing/writfram.htm

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