ACTION RESEARCH
Characteristics of action research
Direct intervention
Action-research (Elliot;1990)
Systematically observation
Action research characteristics (Kemmis/McTarggart;1988)
Take an action
Explain specific teaching content
Interprets classroom events
Exploratory approach
Use direct simple language
Analyse human actions and social solutions
Classroom teachers
Collavorative
Aim to change things
Stages in antion research
Phase 2
Phase 3
Phase 1
Phase 4
Develop a plan action
Act to implement the plan
Observe the effects of action in context
Reflect on effects
Why do action research?
Models of action reasearch (Cohen/Manion;1985)
Stage 1
Identification,evaluation and formulation of the problem.
Stage 2
Discussion and negotiation amongst interested parties
Stage 3
Review of research literature
Stage 4
Restatement of the problem
Reformulation of hypothesis
Stage 5
Selection of research procedures
Stage 6
Coice of evaluation procedures
Stage 7
The implementation of the project
Stage 8
Interpretation of data
Purposes
Reflecting and analysing our teaching
A way of monitoring and evaluating innovation
A way of learning from our learners
Reflect and evaluate our teaching
Ways of doing it
Teacher/student interviews
Journals
Teacher/students daries
Record/video lessons
Listen to recordings
Test-teach-test approach
Variety of approaches
Discussion/sharing experience with colleges
Systematic evaluation of innovation
Make evaluation indirect
Criticisms of action research
Realiability
Validity
Consistency of results obtanined from research
Seek to establish to what extent the reseach is
It is also refers to replicability
Action research is lack of attention
It is unable to provide truths about language teaching
UNIVERSIDAD IEXPRO(N.D) ACTION RESEARCH,OBSERVATION IN THE CLASSROOM CONTEXT (PP41-47)