C. Work in pairs

Ask for and give information on your research problem.

D. Act out the situation.

Two students are taking part in an international conference. There they get acquainted and talk about their research fields and research problems.

Historical Background of Research Problem

Active Vocabulary

at that time/in that period/as early as 19...

by that time

since that time

in recent years/recently/lately

over the last/past few years

in the 1970s/throughout the 70s/in the early 1970s/

in the late 1970s/from 1970 to 1980

the first studies/investigations on the problem

to be the first/to pioneer/to initiate

to date back to/to go back to

to pay attention to

to observe/to consider

to find/to discover

to show/to demonstrate

to assume/to suppose/to make an assumption

to explain/to account for

to confirm/to support

to give rise to

to believe/to think/to expect

to remain unsolved

to be poorly/well understood

to require further effort/study

to point out the shortcomings/weak points/drawbacks

to stimulate interest in

to add greatly to our knowledge of

to lay the foundation for

Tasks

A. Answer the questions:

1. Has your research problem attracted much attention in recent years? Has it been widely studied?

2. What aspects of the problem have been considered over the last few years?

3. Who was the first to recognize/point out the problem?

4. What aspects of the problem did researchers concentrate on at that time?

5. When were the first studies on the problem made? In what years?

6. What time/years do the first studies/observations/investigations date back to?

7. When was the problem first studied intensively?

8. When did the interest in this problem increase?

9. Is the problem well understood at present?

10. What aspects of the problem still remain poorly understood/unsolved?

11. Could you point out the gaps or shortcomings in the earlier studies of the problem?

B. Complete the sentences with the words from the Active Vocabulary Section. Speak
about the historical background of your research problem.

1. In recent years... has greatly increased.

2. Over the past few years the interest in the problem has been due to the fact that

3. During the last 20 years interest in... has considerably....

4. X. was the first to... the problem of....

5. The first studies/observations/experiments....

6. At present, research is concentrated on....

7. Many aspects of the problem still remain....

8. It is difficult to point out... and... of the problem.

C. Work in pairs.

Ask for and give information on the historical background of the research problems under study.

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