Thanks for creating the electronic discussion group, Simon! I'm looking forward to the exchange and discussion of topics with Resig members. I'm starting a...
Dear all Apologies for cross-postings! Here is NEWS about an event: January 27-28 2007 Abu Dhabi, UAE Abu Dhabi University /IATEFL Teacher Development and ELT...
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resig@yahoogroups.com
Sep 2, 2006 7:44 am
Reminder from the Calendar of resig http://groups.yahoo.com/group/resig/cal Action Research: Rewards and Challenges Saturday September 2, 2006 8:00 am - 9:00...
Perhaps we can start of this resig group with some ways in which teachers can 1 - get into research; 2 - convince students that they need to be part of this...
Oooppppss - can't spell, can't type - sorry for the typos - So excited about the resig!!!! theconsultingorganisation <theconsultingorganisation@...>...
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Anthony Fenton
anthony@...
Sep 5, 2006 9:55 am
Well, here in Japan, classroom action research is 'generally' not considered to be of any value. I have the 'support' of a couple of facilitators--and I use...
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Alan Tonkyn
a.p.tonkyn@...
Sep 5, 2006 10:44 am
Dear Resig Group Thanks to Anthony Fenton and the anonymous (I think) e-mailer from the consultingorganization for their comments on this. As someone involved...
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Alan Fortune
alan.fortune@...
Sep 5, 2006 12:44 pm
Dear RESIG group, I agree with Alan Tonkyn's point about published research being possibly the positive tip of a largely negative iceberg of unpublished...
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alex gilmore
gilmore_alex@...
Sep 5, 2006 1:29 pm
Dear resig-ers, Lots of interesting questions here... it's nice to find that there are other people out there interested in asking them. Unfortunately, here in...
Hello all, how nice to see that I'm in the same boat as so many others! There are several issues regarding classroom research which have been hinted at so...
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International
gesundheit2004@...
Sep 6, 2006 11:00 pm
Hello Gill, A quantitative research should contain at least a hundred applicants; otherwise it will be simplistic. I have no time to elabordate, but one day I ...
Hello again I'd like to start at the very start. How does one arrive at a relevant question to ask onself and then follow it through to a worthy stage of...
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Jennifer Wallace
isleworth.jennifer@...
Sep 9, 2006 2:25 pm
I feel I'm starting at the opposite end as regards research - the opposite end to what people are so far describing. I already have an MPhil in linguistics, no...
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alex gilmore
gilmore_alex@...
Sep 10, 2006 10:54 am
Hi Jennifer, Your approach is undervalued and has great potential to lead to serendipitous discoveries; maybe not as momentous as the discovery of penicillin,...
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Na Li (Anna)
lina7936@...
Sep 11, 2006 9:03 pm
Hi all, Yes I agree with Jennifer and Alex's appreciation of the data. I have a similar experience when conducting my classroom-based qualitative research as a...
I appreciate that you need to let the data speak for itself. This is self-evident. But I find this nebulous approach described of simply letting a tape run a...
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Jennifer Wallace
isleworth.jennifer@...
Sep 13, 2006 8:55 am
Margaurina / Margot McCamley is concerned that the approach I'm planning to use with a collection of data that I have is a 'nebulous approach' and not action...
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mdaubney@...
Sep 13, 2006 4:04 pm
Dear Resig group,
I'm a teacher-researcher and researcher at Leiria Polytechnic in Portugal and have a particular interest in affective factors in language...
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john rodgers
jmhrodgers@...
Sep 15, 2006 6:51 pm
I have followed the discussion with interest and so I hope you will not regard my message as intrusive. I’ll come clean: I desperately need some respondents...
Hi Jennifer, I am so pleased you went into more detail about what you are doing. It explained so much and I am grateful because I think we can learn so much...
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Dr Ahmad Al-Hassan
dral_hassan@...
Sep 19, 2006 5:13 am
Dear Mr Rodgers, A sample is to be a random sample. Interviewing your students could be an invalid criteria for any formal research. I recommend you take at...
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Alan Tonkyn
a.p.tonkyn@...
Sep 19, 2006 10:55 am
Dear Mr Rodgers On the questionnaires: the key issue here is not the raw number of questionnaires you get back, but the response rate. If you send out 1000 ...
Thank you to everyone has contributed to the discussion so far - our purpose in setting up the list was to allow these forms of interaction among Research SIG...
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Jennifer Wallace
isleworth.jennifer@...
Oct 9, 2006 9:02 am
A teacher educator from India has asked for my help - wanting to post a request on the research SIG discussion forum but unable to do herself. So I'm posting...
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Leonardo M. N. Mack
leomackmakiesse@...
Oct 9, 2006 5:14 pm
Can Susmita get in touch with as many research SIG members as possible? We might be able to help her. Regards Mack Jennifer Wallace...
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Martin Eayrs
martin@...
Oct 9, 2006 10:27 pm
I have to wonder if Google is really the place to start an academic search? Better without doubt as a free online search engine would be Google Scholar - at...
A plain Google search will provide bibliographic references more often than the articles themselves, because the bibliographies of undergraduate courses, ...
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Leonardo M. N. Mack
leomackmakiesse@...
Oct 10, 2006 1:31 pm
As far as I am concerned, I think both ways ( Using internet search (not only Google) and accesing academic libraries) can be recommended to find references....
What ahout some of the journala ELT forum journals for starters and TESOL papers, and if you go into - ask.com - for academic journals, you will get a whole...
Back from my weekend and I have a whole list of books you can read, magazines, articles in various journals and search journal sites. These are all primary...
