Preface by Halliday
王宗炎序
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Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction: setting the scene
Part 1: principles and perspectives
1. Teachers in action
Introduction
Context and roles
Instances
Patterns of research: implications
Conclusion
Discussion notes
2. The teacher researcher in focus
Introduction
Action and reflection
A short educational excursion
Teacher research and English language teaching
Conclusion
Discussion notes
3. What is research
Introduction
General views
Common views of what research in language teaching does
Basic and applied research
Description and intervention
Normative and interpretive research
Conclusion
Discussion notes
4. Principles and problems: what makes good research
Introduction
Features of good research
Comparison of research traditions on these features
Aspects of design of research
Conclusion
Discussion notes
5. Generating research
Introduction
Beginnings
Approaches
Content: teachers'' choices
Research and research: existing work
Conclusion
Discussion notes
Part 2: topics and methods
6. Definitions and overview
Principles, methods, techniques
Introduction to methods and techniques
Out there: discovering other people''s work and telling them
about one''s own
7. Observing language classrooms
Introduction
Observation: uses and perspectives
Systematizing observation
Alternatives to coding schemes
Naturalistic observation
Conclusion
Discussion notes
8. Diaries and diary studies
Introduction
Some definitions
Diary data
Diaries in language learning and language teaching
Keeping a diary
Conclusion
Discussion notes
9. Using numbers
Introduction
Why count, and what to count
Describing the numbers with other numbers
Inference from chance - ''significance''
Computational aids
Conclusion
Discussion notes
10. Doing experiments
Introduction
Why experiments
Causality and the method of detail
Experiments and quasi-experiments
Some examples
Reflections on the experimental approach
Conclusion
Discussion notes
11. Asking questions
Introduction
Questionnaires
Interviews
Issues in interviewing
Conclusion
Discussion notes
12. Looking inside: methods for introspection
Introduction
Introspection
Verbal report and think-aloud
Research on oneself
Rcsearch on learners
Some examples
Conclusion
Discussion notes
13. Studying cases
Introduction
What is a case
Methods in case study research
Case studies in language learning and teaching
The controversy of case study
Conclusion
Discussion notes
14. Mixing research methods
Introduction
Principles in mixing methods
Teachers'' research: some continuing case studies
Conclusion
Discussion notes
Conclusion
The role of research by teachcrs
Appropriate methodologies
Development of criteria
''Popularity'' of various techniques
Teacher research and higher-degree research
Evaluations of teacher research
And finally ...
Appendix
References
Index
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