Innovation in Language Learning

Nowadays the demands and the challenges young people face in order to be competitive participants of the globalized labour market have demonstrated the need for professionals with sound knowledge in their field and good mastery of English as a lingua franca, an international means of communication for non-native speakers of English. For an individual passing through the levels of tertiary higher education in languages, linguistics, and communication, doing a research is one of the most important components of their studies. It is widely spread to evaluate the final results of the research work done by students. But a little research has been done to assess the impact it can have on them as an individual, as a future scientist, as professionals with high research qualities on one hand and as a learner of a second language on the other.  In this paper, we have tried to demonstrate the gradual development of research culture, language competences, the topic, learning and cognitive capacities, and personal qualities from an undergraduate study till the doctoral research of language and culture acquisition. 

Keywords: Research culture, learning and cognitive competencies, language acquisition;