CLASSROOM RESEARCH

Flowchart nodes

• Classroom Research

• Context

• Combine approaches involving expxerimetal and observational techiques

• TECHNIQUES FOR DATA COLLECTION

• OBSERVATIONS

• Activities of interaction, instructions and events that occur in second and foreing language classroom

• Conducting:  Plan all the activities in order to compromissing quality of the lesson

• Observation procedures:

• ADVANTAGES:  relative ease of use, comparability with other studies, simplified analysis, measuring change over time periods

• CAVEATS: it is neccesary to determine the appropriate scheme for the research goal

• TECHNIQUES FOR DATA ELICITATION

• UPTAKE SHEETS

• Collection of learner's reports about their learning.

• STIMULATED RECALL

• DIARY RESEARCH

• It is an audiotape or videotape recording by the teacher that plays it and ask a participant what he had been thinking at a particular point of time

• Diaries of classroom contexts can produce useful data on a range of aspects of the second language learning process. These include individual learners' and instructors' insights into their own learning and teaching processes

• PURPOSES AND TYPES 

• The relationship betwee instruction and learning in Second language classrooms