Action research for language teachers
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Action research for language teachers
(Cambridge teacher training and development / series editors, Ruth Gairns and Marion Williams)
Cambridge University Press, 1998
- : hard
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 262-269) and indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This practical guide can be used by teachers who wish to develop their professional expertise by investigating their own teaching in a systematic and organised way. It is also invaluable for teachers or trainee teachers who have to produce a professional project or dissertation as part of a training programme. This will help teachers to design and implement a research project which is derived from their normal practice, with results which should be of direct relevance to them. It is user-friendly and includes: - exemplar articles and extracts which show how the research techniques can be implemented - 'Personal review' sections which help readers to think about the ideas being discussed and relate them to their own situation - commentaries which follow up issues raised in the 'Personal review' sections - chapter summaries - a glossary of all technical terms.
Table of Contents
- 1 Why action research?
- 2 Selecting and developing a topic
- 3 Collecting the data
- 4 Field-notes, logs, journals, diaries and personal accounts
- 5 Verbal reports
- 6 Observation techniques: recording and analysing classroom skills
- 7 Interviews and questionnaires
- 8 The case study approach
- 9 Training and evaluation: teaching materials
- 10 No teacher is an island: some approaches to sharing ideas
- Concluding remarks
- Glossary of research terms
- Suggestions for further reading
- Bibliography
- Index
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