yes or no?

looks like i have passed my prelims. margie announced, in front of all the esl students, that "three students have successfully passed their prelims" and later told me she wasn't supposed to tell me but could tell me things had gone well.

so i guess i'll keep that nnest topic. the problem is that i hate it and am bored to death with it!
the advantage is that it'll go fast. for example i won't have to work a lot for the literature review, which is very nice.

questions:

- esl only or efl too?
- nnests or itas too?
- students only or teachers too?
- questionnaires only or interviews too?
- comparing nnests with nests?
- only one semester?
- administrators?
- TIME for sure!

esl AND efl is difficult because it would require a lot of traveling, twice, to administer questionnaires at the beginning and the end of the semester. even harder if i have to interivew people all the time. i don't think it's possible, but it would be so much nicer to have an efl setting!!!! let's see... i think i could survive if i was doing efl too... say, once in france and one in colombia or something... that'd make my study soooo much nicer! then i couldn't interview people all the time or else i'd have to have EMAIL INTERVIEW!? that's an idea... complicated... but let than to travel back and forth three or four times a semester. then i'd only have to go there at the beginning and the end of the semester, which is already a lot but would be nice.

what if i had two latin american countries? that'd simplify the story. or two european countries... boring but even easier. france and germany... something like that. then i'd have those parameters:

- esl vs. efl
- beginning vs. end of semester
- maybe nests vs. nnests
- ...

the problem with efl is that i won't find exactly the same type of program than in esl: 14 weeks, language program, etc. does that matter? should i do it over a year? not possible in esl. does TIME matter (# of weeks) or EXPOSURE (beginning to end of program)?

only efl? but i'd be the first one to compare esl with efl! only one with time too! damn i have to revise this tesol quarterly article!!!