This book offers a lively introduction to the research methods and techniques available to English language teachers who wish to investigate aspects of their own practice. It covers qualitative and quantitative methodology and includes sections on observation. introspection, diary studies, experiments, interviews, questionnaires, numerical techniques and case sutdy research. Each method is illustrated with examples in language teaching contexts, and techniques of data collection and analysis are

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1 Teachers in action
2 The teacher researcher in focus
3 What is research?
4 Principles and probiems:what makes good research?
5 Generating research
6 Definitions and overview
7 Observing language classrooms
8 Diaries and diary studies
9 Using numbers
10 Doing experiments
11 Asking questions
12 Looking inside:methods for introspection
13 Studying cases
14 Mixing research methods
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