Doing Action Research in English Language Teaching: A Guide for Practitioners

ISBN-13: 9780415991452 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 198 str.

Anne Burns

Opis

"… original in approach, engaging in style and persuasive in terms of its content and structure."

Keith Richards, University of Warwick, UK

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
• Reflection points invite readers to think about/discuss what they have read
• Action points ask readers to carry out action-research related tasks based on what they have read
• Classroom voices illustrate aspects of action from teachers internationally
• Summary points provide a synopsis of the discussion 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.

O autorze

Anne Burns is Professor in the Department of Linguistics, Macquarie University, Australia, and former Dean of the Division of Linguistics and Psychology.