Collaborative Action Research for English Language Teachers

Collaborative Action Research for English Language Teachers

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  • Author: Anne Burns
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 0521630843
  • Category : Foreign Language Study
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 229

This book presents first-person accounts providing the basis for exploring the challenges and constraints of action research.


Doing Action Research in English Language Teaching

Doing Action Research in English Language Teaching

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  • Author: Anne Burns
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 113518383X
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 198

This hands-on, practical guide for ESL/EFL teachers and teacher educators outlines, for those who are new to doing action research, what it is and how it works. Straightforward and reader friendly, it introduces the concepts and offers a step-by-step guide to going through an action research process, including illustrations drawn widely from international contexts. Specifically, the text addresses: action research and how it differs from other forms of research the steps involved in developing an action research project ways of developing a research focus methods of data collection approaches to data analysis making sense of action research for further classroom action. Each chapter includes a variety of pedagogical activities: Pre-Reading questions ask readers to consider what they already know about the topic Reflection Points invite readers to think about/discuss what they have read action points ask readers to carry out action-research tasks based on what they have read Classroom Voices illustrate aspects of action research from teachers internationally Summary Points provide a synopsis of the main points in the chapter Bringing the 'how-to' and the 'what' together, Doing Action Research in English Language Teaching is the perfect text for BATESOL and MATESOL courses in which action research is the focus or a required component.


Improving Teaching with Collaborative Action Research

Improving Teaching with Collaborative Action Research

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  • Author: Diane Cunningham
  • Publisher: ASCD
  • ISBN: 1416611622
  • Category : Action research in education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 208

Learn how to use collaborative action research to formulate questions about your chosen topics, take action, and collect and analyze data to answer those questions.


Action Research for Language Teachers

Action Research for Language Teachers

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  • Author: Michael J. Wallace
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 0521555353
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 285

Beginning with the reasons for carrying out action research, this guide for language teachers can be used by them to analyse and investigate their own expertise and develop it in a systematic way.


Collaborative Research in Second Language Education

Collaborative Research in Second Language Education

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  • Author: Teresa O'Brien
  • Publisher: Stylus Publishing, LLC.
  • ISBN: 9781858561714
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 228

In its exploration of four themes, this book shows how researchers, teachers and pupils for whom English is an additional language can develop together. The first theme is research - of a kind that is of direct benefit to teachers - done by teacher and teacher educators, with and for teachers. The second is professional development and shows how the research contributes to becoming a better teacher. The third theme is collaboration - of learners with teachers, teachers with teachers and teachers with teacher educators. Finally, the studies are set within different language education contexts, seeking commonalties where the terms 'foreign', 'second' and 'modern' have generally been divisive. The issues covered include the role of language across the curriculum, the links between oracy and literacy in bilingual learning, the relationship between communicative teachering and communicative testing, teacher development through distance learning programmes, and the appropriacy to context of educational philosophies and technologies. Illustrating how colleagues in schools and higher education institutions can work together effectively for the benefit of all learners, it will be invaluable to educators searching for examples of practitioner research to further their own development. -- from back cover.


Doing Action Research in English Language Teaching

Doing Action Research in English Language Teaching

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  • Author: Anne Burns
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1135183848
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 207

This hands-on, practical guide for ESL/EFL teachers and teacher educators outlines, for those who are new to doing action research, what it is and how it works. Straightforward and reader friendly, it introduces the concepts and offers a step-by-step guide to going through an action research process, including illustrations drawn widely from international contexts. Specifically, the text addresses: action research and how it differs from other forms of research the steps involved in developing an action research project ways of developing a research focus methods of data collection approaches to data analysis making sense of action research for further classroom action. Each chapter includes a variety of pedagogical activities: Pre-Reading questions ask readers to consider what they already know about the topic Reflection Points invite readers to think about/discuss what they have read action points ask readers to carry out action-research tasks based on what they have read Classroom Voices illustrate aspects of action research from teachers internationally Summary Points provide a synopsis of the main points in the chapter Bringing the 'how-to' and the 'what' together, Doing Action Research in English Language Teaching is the perfect text for BATESOL and MATESOL courses in which action research is the focus or a required component.


Action Research for Language Teachers

Action Research for Language Teachers

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  • Author: Michael J. Wallace
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 9780521555357
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 294

A practical resource that supports teachers and trainee teachers to investigate their teaching in a systematic and organised way.


School-University Partnerships in English Language Teacher Education

School-University Partnerships in English Language Teacher Education

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  • Author: Cheri Chan
  • Publisher: Springer
  • ISBN: 3319326198
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 123

This book addresses the complex issues that arise in school-university collaborative action research projects. Employing sociocultural perspectives on examining professional practices of in-service teachers, it examines the complexities of negotiating beliefs, identities and interpersonal relations when educators from two different institutional cultures collaborate. Specifically, the book explores issues such as the discourses that are operative in school-university collaboration for English language teacher education; the way in which beliefs, interpersonal relations and identities are negotiated in school-university partnership; what tensions and complexities operate in collaborative action research discourse in an educational context; and how school-university collaboration can be achieved. The book adopts a critical perspective and provides arguments from a non-Western sociocultural perspective.


Developing Language Teacher Autonomy through Action Research

Developing Language Teacher Autonomy through Action Research

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  • Author: Kenan Dikilitaş
  • Publisher: Springer
  • ISBN: 3319507397
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 304

This book advances the theory of action research, analyzing how it can be used to develop autonomy among language teachers. Although acknowledging that the research process is not always linear, the authors proceed according to a clear progression which teachers can adapt to their needs. They provide examples, narratives, questions and tasks, and give multiple ideas for establishing research questions, choosing appropriate methodologies, adapting to existing contexts, and collecting data. They also suggest possible instruments, and give clear instructions for carrying out the most common kinds of statistical procedures, and ideas for presenting, discussing, and writing up research findings. In spite of its practical bias, the book is theoretically and ethically rigorous, and contains an extensive glossary for quick and easy reference. It will appeal to trainee teachers, in-service teachers wanting to expand their own professional horizons or working for a higher qualification, and is an invaluable reference for teacher-educators and scholars.


Reflective Practice in English Language Teaching

Reflective Practice in English Language Teaching

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  • Author: Steve Mann
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis
  • ISBN: 1317557840
  • Category : Foreign Language Study
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 292

Offering a unique, data-led, evidence-based approach to reflective practice in English language teaching, this book brings together theory, research and practice in an accessible way to demonstrate what reflective practice looks like and how it is undertaken in a range of contexts. Readers learn how to do and to research reflective practice in their own settings. Through the use of data, dialogue and appropriate tools, the authors show how reflective practice can be used as an ongoing teaching tool that supports professional self-development.