Putting Together the Research Proposal

 Putting together your research proposal 

a. Research topic 

Self-handicapping attitudes and how attribution retraining can contribute to young English learners’ ability to cope with failure and frustration in a constructive manner.

b. Research problem 

There has not been enough research about self-handicapping attitudes and attribution retraining in our particular context, which is EFL primary classrooms in Buenos Aires province in Argentina. 

c. Research questions

1. What is the effectiveness that attribution retraining has on EFL learners’ self-esteem and performance in the short term? 

2. How can we help students cope with failure by means of attributional retraining techniques?

3. To what extent can attribution retraining help offset self-handicapping attitudes in very young learners?

d. General objective 

To know the extent to which attribution retraining can help counteract self-handicapping attitudes and raise failure tolerance in young EFL learners in a second cycle primary school in Villa Ballester,  Buenos Aires, Argentina. 

e.  A list of bibliographic entries 

• Chodkiewicz, A.R., & Boyle, C. (2015). Believing You Can is the First Step to Achieving: A CBT and Attribution Retraining Programme to Improve Self-Belief in Students aged 8-12. Jessica Kingsley Publishers.

• Chodkiewicz, A.R., & Boyle, C. (2014). Exploring the contribution of attribution retraining to student perceptions and the learning process. Educational Psychology in Practice: theory, research and practice in educational psychology, 30:1, 78-87, DOI: 10.1080/02667363.2014.880048 

• Matteucci, M. C. (2017). Attributional retraining and achievement goals: An exploratory study on theoretical and empirical relationship. European Review of Applied Psychology, 67(5), 279-289.

• Mosak, H., & Maniacci, M. (2013). Encouraging growth. In Mosak, H., & Maniacci, M. (Eds), Primer of Adlerian psychology: The analytic-behavioural-cognitive psychology of Alfred Adler.(pp. 146-161) Routledge.