28 January 2010

RJA #2a: Possible Topics

When I think about what type of a topic I wanted to use, I know that I love travel, languages, and the like. However, how I can incorporate the following into a research paper will be something I have to think about. In the past, I've done a couple papers about foreign language education. I think that's something I might want to stick to, but I'm going to need to first check my sources to see what's out there to compare.
Five topics, however, are:
  • Which is better? Learning a foreign language in a university in the United States, or living in a foreign country and learning the language at a university where primarily English is spoken there?
  • Maybe, I could write about something related to the Montessori approach of teaching versus an Americanized kindergarten.
  • Researching general topics on online journals and sources have included things such as "Italian foreign language education" and "Italian linguistics". I'm interested in something of the sort.
  • Many of the sources the search engines have provided me with have been the phonetics and linguistics of Italian, and perhaps other Romance languages. I am very intrigued by the contrast between teaching approaches--complete immersion vs. English-based teaching in the United States.

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