This two-semester course aims to acquaint students with the process of composing academic research papers by virtue of offering hands-on experiences. At the conclusion of this academic year, students are each required to produce a complete research paper on a topic of their own interest. They are recommended to, but not limited to, select their topics in the following academic areas: second language acquisition, language teaching methodologies, language learning strategies, technology and language learning, psychology of human learning, cross-cultural communication, measurement and evaluation, personality and individual differences, and so forth.