Tag: Research
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Empowering Language Teachers: The Research Literacy Framework
What is language teacher research literacy? In this post, we present an article that defines research literacy and talks about a framework that can designed to support teachers’ professional growth.
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Making Research Work for Language Teachers
This post discusses the importance of teacher research in language education, arguing that teachers actively engage in research-like activities, even if they don’t label it as such.
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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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Critical Skills for Life and Work
An overview of the Critical Skills for Life and Work project, an EU-funded initiative helping highly skilled refugees develop professional intercultural communication skills. The flexible toolkit uses a plurilingual approach to support workplace integration across five career stages.
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On being misquoted
This post revisits an old frustration: being misquoted and misrepresented in a doctoral thesis on Likert scales. I explain what I actually wrote, highlight how selective citation distorts meaning, and consider why such lapses matter for scholarship. Ten years on, I argue for more rigorous research practices and point to initiatives that foster teachers’ research…
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How to summarise Likert scale data using SPSS
If you want to convert multiple Likert item scores in a combined scale, here’s one way to do it using SPSS.
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Dependent and independent variables, using SPSS, and minding one’s manners
This post will teach you three things: how to tell dependent and independent variables apart; how to calculate correlations; and how not to piss me off.
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How not to do a research project
This post looks into some avoidable issues that can sometimes compromise classroom based research and student research projects. I hope I do not sound too immodest when I claim that I have some experience in school-based research. My PhD research was embedded in a language school, I’ve supervised BA and M-level research projects which involved working with…
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Thinking about how to present multilingual data
So far in this series of posts on doing multilingual research, I have probed the intricacies of multilingual research settings, presented some dilemmas about obtaining informed consent, and talked about language choice and data generation. This post moves the discussion forward to the most visible outcome of a multilingual research project: How might one present multilingual data on a…