Mascara University’s master didactics students' anxiety about research topic choice

Abstract

It is argued that the most critical moment in performing research work is the topic choice. This challenging step comes before undertaking any research work. Almost, the most common researcher’s anxiety that comes to his/her mind is about the success or on the contrary, the failure of the topic choice. This research aims to tackle the common challenges and difficulties while choosing one’s research problem. The study targets a group of postgraduate students of the English language Department at the University of Mascara. Around 25 subjects representing Master II 2021–2022 promotion participated in this study. The research tools include a questionnaire with students and a teacher’s experience in teaching Research Methodology Module at Mascara University. Most participants prefer the topics proposed by their future supervisors. Also, the study tempts to give recommendations for developing students’ research topics and titles.       

Keywords: Methodology, research work, students, topic choice;