1. Finding a Research Topic or a
classroom project topic

3. Fear of Topic Selection
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Your topic should be...
 Innovative
 Exciting
 Interesting
 Current
 Attractive

5. Things to Consider
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What kind of job are you interested in?
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Listening, speaking, pronunciation, CLIL,
culture, teachers-to-be?
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What are your strengths? weaknesses?
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Teaching, reading, writing?
What drives you? bores you?
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Technology, strategies, applications,
interdisciplinary, behavior, learning

7. Ways to Find a Topic

8. 1) I have an idea!
Is it researchable?
 Is it doable?
 Can you find enough information?
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9. 2) Testing the waters!
Find opinions about you idea from
different perspectives.
 Explore the field you are interested in.
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10. 3) Make up your mind!
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From collected information, find the
area of interest that is more appealing
for you.

11. 4) The Stapler Model
You work on a number of small topics
that turn into a series of conference
papers
 You figure out somehow how to tie it
all together, create a chapter from
each paper, and put a big staple
through it
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12. 5) Post-it now!
Save sources, pages, for the
reference list.
 Found something interesting? Post-it
now, so you don't forget.
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13. IN BRIEF
Select a topic that interests you
Read through background information
Start making a list of key words
Write out your topic as a statement and select the
main concepts
Start making a list of words to describe your topic