This lecture teaches you about how to find research topics. You can watch its video: https://youtu.be/uY6MbvhsWkU

1. How to Select
Topic for Thesis/
Research Paper
Zafar Ullah; zafarullah76@gmail.com
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2. Explore Yourself
★ Who are you? Introvert or extrovert
★ Your passions
★ Your interests/ hobbies (tickets)
★ Your jobs/ teacher/ banker
★ Your company with books/ internet/ social media/ youtube/
blogging
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3. Aspects of ELT
★ Blended learning
★ Online learning
★ Grammar
★ ESL songs
★ Language learning tools and softwares
★ Educational Data Mining
★ ESP
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4. Cont …
★ Vocabulary
★ Pictures/ funny pictures
★ Mobile learning
★ Gamification
★ Learning platforms
★ Social media/ youtube
★ Take list of language learning tools
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5. cont…
★ Edutainment
★ Situated Language Teaching
★ Task-based language teaching
★ Adaptation of Language Teaching
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6. Branches of Linguistics
★ Corpus
★ Phonology
★ Morphology
★ Semantics
★ Sociolinguistics
★ Language Documentation
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7. Ways to Select Topic
★ Read Conference posters/ CFP/ Books/ Theses
★ Choose only one aspect/ tool/ class/ area
★ Read Emerging Trends in your domain/ field/ branch
★ Find gap
★ Read Recommendations
★ Choose modern things
★ Replicate
★ Add Indigenous colouring
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8. Useful Sites Web Based Learning
• British Council Teaching English
• Onestop English
• Zozanga.com
• Manythings.org
• Academia.edu
• Elt-resourecful
• Demand High ELT
• An A-Z of ELT
• 4Teachers.org (to integrate technology)
• Abcteach educational offering 5000+ printable
• Breaking News English.com
• Dave's ESL Café
• Education Planet more than 100,000 resources
• Education World educational search engine
• Educator's Reference Desk: ESL Lesson Plans
• EduHound
• Edutopia
• Eduweb interact with material like video games
• English Firsthand: Teacher Resources
• ESL Flow
• ESL Kids Stuff
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9. Cont…
• ESL Through Music
• Songs for Teaching
• Every Picture Tells a Story
• Everything ESL: Classroom Lesson Plans
• Google for Educators
• Interesting Things for ESL Students
• Havefunteaching.com
• Internet Picture Dictionary
• Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day (award
Learn English
• National Capital Language Resource Center
• NetGrammar (reading, writing and listening
• PBS Teachers 3,000 free lesson plans
• The Learning Page Lesson plans, worksheets
• Time Magazine for Kids: Classroom
Resources
• Esltower
• Esl galaxy
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10. Useful Video Channels in Youtube; Social media
● • JenniferESL: Jennifer’s best videos are
her lessons
● • MisterDuncan: He covers lessons on
fluency and speaking English.
● • Voice of America Learning English:
● BBC Learning English:
Facebook
Twitter
Linkedin
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11. Apps
• Listen and Speak
• Cartoon- Free English
• EnglishPodcast for Learners
• Fluent English
• Supiki English Conversation Speaking Practice app
• Learn English Elementary (by British Council)
• Language Verb Trainer
• LangLearner English Idioms
• Sentence Builder
• 50 Languages
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12. Best Videogames for ESL
• Phantasy Quest leaves on a deserted island
• Sound Factory let to play a musical factory
• Ketinetto 2 The Ballard of Ketinetto 7
• Heart Of Tota
• Monster Basement This one is fairly scary,.
• Griswold The Goblin audio supported text
• The Ballad of Ketinetto ,
• Dr. Stanley’s House 2″
• Inspector Kloo 4 , Inspector Kloo 5
• The Ballad of Ketinetto 8
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13. Tools for Creating Teaching Materials
• Exam time mind maps:
• examtime Quizzes:
• eltpics photos to teach
• Author Stream slides
• Present.Me A video presenting platform
• Blabberize Animates any image with a moving
mouth and audio.
• Tagxedo Creates beautiful word clouds.
• Infogr.am Creates interactive infographics
• Animoto Creates videos with photos,music and
• Piktochart Creates quick and impressive
infographics.
• StudyBlue- an online tool for making
flashcards with video and audio
• Pixton- an online comic maker to add
sound, upload pictures and images.
• Storybird- is a collaborative storytelling tool.
Students can create short art inspired stories
• Prezi- a cloud-based presentation software
that has the ability to zoom in and out.
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14. Corpus/ Text Mining Tools
Antconc, Lexeamtutor, sketchengine, wordsmith tools etc
Corpora (BYU)
https://www.english-corpora.org/
Voyant https://voyant-tools.org/
Gephi
POS Tagger https://parts-of-speech.info/
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15. Thanks a lot
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