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Exam question:
Follow the instructions below and write (either in English or in Chinese) a literature review with no less than 2000 words.
1) Choose a research topic based on your own teaching experience, what you have read in
English teaching journals, or your own interests. The topic must be related to English teaching.
2) Find at least 15 books and journal articles on the topic. There should be at least 10 empirical studies in the list of literature that you find.
3) Read the literature critically and make reading cards if necessary.
4) Organize the literature based on what you have learned in Modules 2, 9 and 10.
5) Find out about what needs to be done about this topic in the future.
6) Write an outline for the literature review.
7) Write the literature review.
8) Provide a list of references at the end of your literature review.
For example, if you are interested in using portfolio as a way of assessing students’learning outcome, you should search the internet, the library or other sources to find books that talk about different ways of assessment, and empirical studies on using portfolio in ESL/EFL assessment. Read the previous research in this area critically. Try to group the empirical studies according to the difference in subjects, instruments used, ways of collecting data, or results. Find out what has been done in this area and what needs to be done in the future. Write an outline for your literature review and then write it.
If you have trouble finding a topic yourself, you can choose one of the following topic areas to write on. But remember, what is provided here are only some broad topics and subtopics, you still need to narrow down the topic that you choose according to the
literature that you can find.
1.English teaching methods (Note: Here you shouldn’t talk about your own ways of
teaching. Instead, you should try to summarize the existing ways of teaching and give your comments.)
- Teaching reading to high school students
- Teaching listening to high school students
- Teaching writing to high school students
- Teaching grammar to high school students
- Teaching vocabulary to high school students
-Cultural awareness in English language teaching
-Cooperative language learning in high school
-Error correction in English class
-Peer-editing in teaching English writing
-etc.
2.English teachers
-Teachers’ belief in English language teaching
-Secondary school English teacher development
-etc.
3.English language learners
- High school students’English learning strategy studies
- English reading strategy studies
- English listening strategy studies
- English language learning motivations
- English language learning autonomy
- Learners’ belief in English language teaching
- Learning styles and its influence on English language learning
4.English language assessment
- Different ways of assessing English learning achievement
- Using portfolio as a way of assessing students’ English learning outcome
- Formative assessment in English teaching
- etc.
5.Curriculum and coursebook
-Studies on New English curriculum
-Studies on New Senior English for China
-Studies on Go for it.
-etc.
6.Others
-Studies on teacher talk
-Studies on student talk
-etc.
Also, to help you understand what you need to write, a sample literature review is attached to the test paper. Please read the PDF file before you start doing anything.
Good luck!。