research rationale:Family language policy: exploring transnational families

Order Description Step 1: Take your existing research topic and develop its form and content into a rationale. While you are in the early stages of research and not familiar with the literature in your topic, do your best to formulate rationales that are not simply stating your personal or professional interests but expand on how they relate to the larger field of applied linguistics research. This may mean doing a preliminary and rough search of literature via the library or re-visiting previous texts you have read on the topic. Aim to write approximately a one-page double spaced entry that begins to articulate why your topic matters and its relevance for educational research. Spend considerable time developing this as it will become the basis for your draft dissertation proposal. Some guiding questions to help you draft a preliminary rationale are: 1. Why is this project worth doing? 2. What will be learnt from it? 3. Is this worth knowing? 4. Who will it help? 5. Why should anyone be interested in this research? 6. How will this project inform thinking or practice in the field? Step 2: Post your draft on the forum for your peers to read and comment on. Step 3: Respond to at least two posts by your peers. Commenting on any connections between your rationale and theirs, suggest additional reasons why a study might be important, contribute anything relevant from your own context, etc. Try to ensure that each member of your community receives at least one response, so respond to a post that hasn't had feedback yet.