Category Archives: Methods

This is the third of 3 blog posts summarizing a book by Prof. Ann Burns on Action Research (AR) in language teaching. In my previous posts, I summarized the first and second parts of the book, on what action research is and how to design an AR study. In this post, I provide a summaryContinue reading “Doing action research in English language teaching (part 3 of 3)”

This is the second of 3 blog posts summarizing a book by Prof. Ann Burns on Action Research (AR) in language teaching. In my previous post, I summarized the first part of the book, on what action research is. In this post, I provide a summary of the middle of the book, on how toContinue reading “Doing action research in English language teaching (part 2 of 3)”

This 3-part post summarizes a book by Prof. Ann Burns on Action Research (AR) in language teaching. Like Grounded Theory (GT), action research is a popular qualitative method. In this post, I summarize the first two chapters of the book, on what AR is and how to plan it. In part 2, I will summarizeContinue reading “Doing action research in English language teaching (part 1 of 3)”

This post continues the previous one on the qualitative methodology called Grounded Theory (GT). I summarize the second half of the textbook on GT in applied linguistics by Prof. Gregory Hadley at Niigata University. This half contains a practical guide on how to do GT. It has four parts: (1) setting up your study, (2)Continue reading “Grounded Theory in Applied Linguistics Research: A Practical Guide (part 2 of 2)”

If you’ve ever done coding in qualitative research, it’s important to know where that process comes from: an influential methodology called Grounded Theory (GT). GT became so popular in the late 20th century that its coding process was adopted into other qualitative methodologies like case studies, action research, phenomenology, and ethnography. The central premise ofContinue reading “Grounded Theory in Applied Linguistics Research: A Practical Guide (part 1 of 2)”