Collaborative action research for English language teachers

By: Burns, AnneMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999Description: xi, 259 p. : illustrationsISBN: 0521630843 ; 9780521630849 ; 052163895X ; 9780521638951Subject(s): Action research in education | English language -- Discourse analysis | English language -- Study and teaching -- Foreign speakers | English language -- Study and teaching -- ResearchDDC classification: 428.24072
Contents:
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.
Summary: "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.
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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.

"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.

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