I believe that research has an impact on teaching practices in a beneficial way. To be the best teacher you can be, you should always be willing to try different ways to help your students learn. Without research on the profession of second language acquisition, it is hard to have solid information to back up various strategies of teaching another language. “We view language as something we use to do things—engaging in actions and activities (Gee, 2011)” (As cited by Brown and Lee, 2015, p. 100). This piece of research may seem like common sense to some teachers, but other teachers may be close minded and want to only teach language from workbooks and lectures. Without research to rely upon, these teachers will make up other excuses to not change and grow in their teaching methods. Engaging in actions and activities is a crucial aspect to learning a new language. Submersing yourself in the language culturally and in different ways other than sitting in front of a teacher or sitting at...