TY - BOOK AU - Burns, Anne ; TI - Collaborative action research for English language teachers SN - 0521630843 U1 - 428.24072 PY - 1999/// CY - Cambridge ; New York : PB - Cambridge University Press, KW - Action research in education. KW - English language -- Discourse analysis. KW - English language -- Study and teaching -- Foreign speakers. KW - English language -- Study and teaching -- Research N1 - Included Index; 1. Why should teachers do action research? -- 2. Definitions and processes -- 3. Getting started -- 4. Observational techniques for collecting action research data -- 5. Non-observational techniques for data collection -- 6. Analysing action research data -- 7. Disseminating the research and sustaining the action -- 8. Collaborative action research in practice N2 - "This book proposes that action research should be a collaborative process emerging from the practical concerns of groups of teachers working in a common or similar context. Teachers' first-person accounts provide the basis for exploring the challenges and constraints of action research."--BOOK JACKET. ER -