Reflection

After our discussion, I know that many people are actually facing the same problems as I am when we are trying to find useful resources to support our arguments for our research papers. For instance, you may always find that there is little chance to find an article or a journal that is exactly corresponding to your topic of your research paper. Therefore, the process of finding useful sources from books, journals, websites, or periodicals can be very tough. However, after our discussion, I know that it is normal that it happens so. As a matter of fact, we may always change our topics during our searching for relevant sources. For example, my original topic is: is it necessary to immerse yourself (e.g., traveling, working, or studying) in the American culture in order to learn English well? Why or why not? Nevertheless, when I try to find relevant sources on the Internet, I barely can find anything that is exactly talking about my topic. Instead, I just find something similar to it. But after the searching for the sources, I find something more interesting and began to think about another topic: what problems regarding to language would immigrants have when moving to an English-speaking country. How would they adapt themselves to English, the new language, so that they can live in that English-speaking country? But this is still just in my head, I am still not sure whether I will change the topic in the end or not. On the other hand, one of the sources I find on the Internet is about the problem of non-native speakers’ accent. Another is about some groups of Germen immigrants who do not know how to speak English but somehow have lived in the United States even till now. Still another is about video an ad of a language school, in which there are many students from different corners of the world sharing their thoughts of studying in that language school. Some of them mention that they learn better there than in their own countries because they can learn the teachers’ accent because the teachers are native speakers. This is the best advantage they think they get when learning in that school. They think that if they learn English in their own countries, they may not have the opportunities to learn how to speak more like a native speaker. But still, I need to find more relevant sources to support my research paper. The more sources I find to support my paper, the more quickly and more certainly can I decide in what direction I should move on.