ACTION RESEARCH IN LANGUAGE TEACHING: PRACTITIONER REFLECTIONS
ACTION RESEARCH IN LANGUAGE TEACHING: PRACTITIONER REFLECTIONS

Author(s): Anne J. Gilliland
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Education, Adult Education, Higher Education
Published by: Biblioteca Ştiinţifică a Universităţii de Stat Alecu Russo
Keywords: action research; language teaching; reflection; critical friends;
Summary/Abstract: Action research (AR) can be more rewarding for teachers when theyhave a community in which to share their ongoing process and discussinterventions, methods, and findings. This article presents teachers’ reflectionson their Fall 2020 action research studies, when they were teaching online andadapting practices to the “new normal.” The teachers were enrolled in a graduate-level seminar on AR in which they conducted research in theirindividual teaching contexts and met regularly in critical friends groups. After asummary of the seminar design, the teacher researchers individually discusstheir personal and professional learning from the course and research process.We conclude with recommendations for implementing AR in language teachereducation programs.

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