Category: Research Methodology (All)
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ReaLiTea loading…
On 5th and 6th March 2024, the ReaLiTea team got together in Dortmund to work on resources for developing teacher research literacy. This post summarises some of the work accomplised during the meeting.
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Writing an MA dissertation
The post presents three MA students’ insights into writing successful dissertations. It covers challenges that they faced as well as advice for successfully engaging with the process.
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Thinking about the teaching-research gap
This reflective blog post discusses the teacher-research gap in language education.
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Developing research literacy skills for language teachers: The ReaLiTea project
The ReaLiTea project is an international collaboration that aims to develop research literacy among teachers. This post provides an overview of the project and explains why research literacy is necessary and urgent.
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Classroom Observation for language teachers: A how-to guide
Learn how to plan, conduct, and reflect on classroom observations with this step-by-step guide for teachers, student teachers, and supervisors.
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A classroom observation framework
Conducting classroom observations is one of the most effective ways to develop as a teacher. But classrooms are so information-rich that the experience can be overwhelming. How do you decide what to look out for?
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Becoming Research Literate: Supporting Teacher Research in ELT
Daniel Xerri and Ceres Pioquinto have put together an edited collection on research literacy for language educators (Becoming Research Literate: Supporting Teacher Research in ELT), which is free to download. This post describes the book, and my own contribution to it, and includes a link to download the book.
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Doing Classroom-Based Research
In this post I dicsuss classroom-based research as a way for teachers to explore their professional practice.
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Five benefits of attending conferences
The latest issue of English Language Teaching Journal has an interesting article, by Simon Borg, which describes what ELT professionals perceive as the benefits of participating in conferences. Unfortunately the article is behind a paywall, but if you or your institution have a subscription to ELT J, you can follow the link below: Borg, S. (2015). The…