Netta Avineri

Research Methods for Language Teaching (eBook, PDF)

Inquiry, Process, and Synthesis

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides readers with a range of approaches and tools for thinking deeply about conducting research in their own language classrooms. The book's accessible style and content encourage language teachers to become part of a community focused on inquiry, equipping them with relevant terminology and concepts for their own teaching and research (inquiry, data collection, data analysis, bringing it all together). The reader is exposed to various research methods and examples, accompanied by pros and cons and rationales for each. This enables them to select which research approaches resonate most and are relevant to their own teaching. The book is designed to empower language teachers to engage in ongoing research, thus democratizing who might be considered a researcher. It includes a range of activities and reflections that can be adapted for both pre- and in-service language teachers in diverse language classrooms.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. März 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781137563439
• Artikelnr.: 54259433

Autorenporträt

Netta Avineri is Assistant Professor of TESOL/TFL at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey (MIIS).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Section I: Inquiry 1. How to ACE the Research Process 2. The Noun and the Verb of the Literature Review 3. Research Questions and Research Design: Concretizing Inquiry 4. Research Ethics: Reasons, Roles, Responsibilities, and Relationships
Section II: Data Collection 5. Making Questionnaires Work for You 6. Interviews, Focus Groups, and Reflections 7. Case Studies, Ethnography, and Visual Data 8. Transcription: Process and Product 9. Approaches to Collection of Quantitative Data
Section III: Data Analysis 10. Interpretive Analysis of Qualitative Data 11. Approaches to Analysis of Quantitative Data
Section IV: Bringing It All Together 12. Arguments, Implications, and Communities of Practice