Research Foundations involves students in constructing language research to become more critical and reflective teachers. The document introduces research lines and sub-lines from the B.A program at Universidad Santo Tom叩s, including how to formulate an innovative language research problem statement by considering needs, contributions and relevance in the 21st century. It also discusses contrasting research interests from existing research analysis, macro and micro context analysis, analyzing existing research projects through literature review and theoretical revision to be aware of what other researchers have done in the context of your own language research.