The Methodological Approach of Action Research in the Field of English Language Teaching

• 발행기관: 한국영어어문교육학회
• 저자명: 정영옥(Young Ok Jong) 정채관(Chae Kwan Jung)
• 간행물 정보: 『영어어문교육』영어어문교육 제21권 제2호, 23~40쪽, 전체 18쪽
• 주제분류: 사회과학 > 교육학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2015.06.30

영문 초록

Qualitative research has been dominant paradigm in social research including English Language Teaching (ELT) for many years. However, there has been a paradigm shift towards qualitative research that has occurred in much recent social research. In addition, there has been a shift towards a new paradigm, often referred as ‘Action Research (AR)’ in which teachers as researchers study situations in effort to improve some aspect of professional practice. In this paper, we will take AR as a much broader approach within the qualitative research stance to see what is happening in educational and ELT research, so that teacher research can enhance the practice of teachers. With this new methodological movement, we have three purposes in this paper: 1) to explore two different methodological approaches within a theoretical perspective; 2) to criticize an example of sustained cross-school AR in order to better illustrate how action research can proceed; and 3) to investigate the application of AR in order to explore its potential for developing collaborative classroom-based AR. We believe that if further AR is to be sustainable by English teachers as researchers, it will be a promising area needing further research in educational and ELT research in Korea.

목차

I. INTRODUCTION

II. PARADIGMS OF RESEARCH

III. ACTION RESEARCH FOR PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

IV. AN EXAMPLE OF AN ACTION RESEARCH PROJECT

V. APPLICABILITY FOR TEACHER DEVELOPMENT IN SOUTH KOREA

VI. CONCLUSION

키워드

research methodology qualitative research action research teachers as researchers