Mahasiswa mengusulkan rencana penelitian kepada Ketua Program Studi baik dalam bentuk digital maupun dalam bentuk cetak. Berikut penjelasannya:

a. Mahasiswa

1. Menyiapkan formulir rencana penelitian dan pembimbingan skripsi dengan mengunduh formulir pada situs resmi program studi (bg.fkip.unismuh.ac.id) untuk diisi secara lengkap, kemudian formulir tersebut diperlihatkan dan diketahui oleh Dosen Penasihat Akademik, lalu diajukan ke Ketua Program Studi untuk disahkan.
2. Mengisi rencana penelitian yang diusulkan yang terdiri atas:
3. Judul penelitian
4. Lokasi penelitian
5. Jangka waktu penelitian
6. Masalah pokok penelitian
7. Variabel dan data pokok penelitian
8. Landasan teori/teori yang akan dikonstruksi
9. Metode dan desain penelitian
10. Subjek penelitian
11. Objek penelitian
12. Instrumen pengumpulan, pengolahan, analisis, dan penyajian data penelitian
13. Luaran / produk akhir penelitian
14. Isu / Kajian penelitian dipilih sesuai dengan yang telah ditetapkan oleh Program Studi
15. Memiliki email institusi
16. Mempresentasikan gagasan penelitian tersebut secara daring atau luring
17. Program Studi

b. Ketua dan Sekretaris Program Studi mengesahkan pengajuan usulan atau rencana penelitian mahasiswa apabila telah memenuhi ketentuan di bawah ini:

1. Mahasiswa mengajukan judul dengan menggunakan email institusi
2. Menyetor transkrip nilai yang telah disahkan dengan minimal 100 sks dan melulusi Mata Kuliah prasyarat
3. Menyetor draft proposal penelitian
4. Judul yang diajukan maksimal memiliki kemiripan sebanyak 5 lima
5. Draft proposal memenuhi kaidah proposal penelitian

c. Research issues for undergraduate students of English education department in Academic year 2021 to 2023

Translation and Interpretation

An academic interdisciplinary dealing with the systematic study of the theory, description and application of translation, interpreting, and localization. As an interdisciplinary, translation Studies borrows much from the various fields of study that support translation.

1. Comparative literature, computer science, linguistics, semiotics, and terminology.
2. Translation project,
3. Translation criticism,
4. Dynamic and formal equivalence,
5. Contrastive linguistics.
6. Technologies: CAT, machine translation, mobile (machine) translation, translation management system, dubbing, subtitling, pre-editing, post-editing, multimedia translation,
7. Foreignization,
8. Literal translation,
9. Idiomatic translation,
10. Faithful translation,

English for Specific Purposes

Topics relevant to the teaching and learning of discourse for specific communities:

1. Academic, occupational, or otherwise specialized,
2. Second language acquisition in specialized contexts,
3. Needs assessment,
4. Curriculum development and evaluation,
5. Materials preparation, discourse analysis, descriptions of specialized varieties of English,
6. Teaching and testing techniques,
7. The effectiveness of various approaches to language learning and language teaching,
8. The training or retraining of teachers for the teaching of ESP,
9. Identifying aspects of ESP needing development,
10. ESP programs and learners’ professional or vocational interests,
11. Implications that findings from related disciplines can have for the profession of ESP.

Language Testing and Assessment

A field of study under the umbrella of applied linguistics.

1. The assessment of first, second or other languages in the school, college, or university context
2. The assessment may include listening, speaking, reading, writing, and integration of two or more of these skills, or other constructs of language ability.
3. Equal weight may be placed on knowledge (understanding how the language works theoretically) and proficiency (ability to use the language practically), or greater weight may be given to one aspect or the other.

Sociolinguistics and Psycholinguistics

The descriptive study of the effect of any aspects of society, including:

1. Cultural norms,
2. Expectations, and context, on the way language
3. Code-switching,
4. Diglossia,
5. Language change,
6. Language ideology,
7. Language planning,
8. Multilingualism,
9. Prestige,
10. Areas of study: Accent, dialect, register, discourse analysis, language varieties, linguistics description, pragmatics, variation.
11. Psychology, cognitive science, linguistics, speech and language pathology,
12. Language acquisition,
13. Language comprehension,
14. Language production,
15. Second language acquisition.

English Language Teaching Methodology

Teaching method refers to general principles,

1. Pedagogy and management strategies used for classroom instruction.
2. Language-teaching procedures: approach, method, design, procedure, and technique.

Applied Linguistics Studies

The journal of nature, structure and variation of language, including:

1. Phonetics,
2. Phonology,
3. Morphology and the study of human speech,
4. Language form,
5. Language meaning,
6. Language in context,
7. Syntax and pragmatics.

Computer Interaction in Education / Computer Assisted Language Learning / ICT in Language Teaching and Material Developments

The research issues have been divided into topics and themes:

1. ICTs on learning and achievement,
2. Monitoring and evaluation,
3. Equity issues: Equity, special needs and marginalized groups,
4. ICT in Education Policy issues, school-level issues,
5. Specific ICT tools used in education,
6. Teachers, Teaching and ICTs,
7. Content & Curriculum issues,
8. ICTs in school affect future employment,
9. Computer-literacy instruction in schools,
10. ICTs in education on access, use of, attitudes toward, and learning outcomes,
11. ICT integration, learning strategies fostered by the use of ICTs impact special needs and disadvantaged students,
12. ICT applications, audio/verbal versus visual representations of educational content, and communicative modes impact communicative practices and create/reinforce/ameliorate various exclusions and inclusions as curriculum and communication methods are moved on-line
13. The best practices for producing, disseminating and using educational content in audio format (including via radio) for deaf students
14. ICT use for special needs and disadvantaged students by introduced into teacher professional development activities
15. Collaborative activities in groups facilitated by ICTs on students
16. ICTs for use in schools outside of computer classroom
17. ICT components in education projects
18. ICT facilities in schools to the wider community
19. Pedagogical practices and transformations
20. Outcomes of ICT use by teachers resulting from participation in professional development activities
21. Practices for creating electronic/digital curricular content
22. ICTs, curricular issues and standardized testing
23. ICT in education policies are currently in place
24. ICTs be used to facilitate the decentralization process underway or contemplated in many Ministries of Education
25. ICTs be used to combat corruption in the education sector
26. The best practices from implementing education management information systems (EMIS)
27. ICTs have been introduced and maintained in schools
28. Introduction and maintenance of ICT-related equipment and to promote ICT-related instruction

Intercultural Communication

Focuses on interrelationships between culture and communication. The research may report results from either cross-cultural comparative research or results from other types of research concerning the ways culture affects human symbolic activities. Studies reporting data from within a single nation/culture should focus on cultural factors and explore the theoretical or practical relevance of their findings from a cross-cultural perspective.