What role does 'research' play in languageteaching?: Attitudes of elt teachers, administrators and teacher trainerstowards teacher research engagement at auniversity in Northern Cyprus
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- Tez No: 726391
- Danışmanlar: DOÇ. DR. EMRE DEBRELİ
- Tez Türü: Yüksek Lisans
- Konular: İngiliz Dili ve Edebiyatı, English Language and Literature
- Anahtar Kelimeler: English language teachers, school of foreign languages, conceptions of research, research engagement, research culture, professional development, administrators, teacher trainers
- Yıl: 2019
- Dil: İngilizce
- Üniversite: European Unıversıty Of Lefke
- Enstitü: Yurtdışı Enstitü
- Ana Bilim Dalı: Belirtilmemiş.
- Bilim Dalı: Belirtilmemiş.
- Sayfa Sayısı: Belirtilmemiş.
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Teacher research, one type of self-directed and job-embedded professional development activity, is highly promoted today as a way of empowering teachers to base their decisions on evidence through researching their own practice and hence to develop deeper understandings of their work (Atay, 2008; Borg, 2010). Also, in many parts of the world today, student teachers are offered research methods courses where they are introduced to the ways of utilising and carrying out educational research, which aims to motivate them to pursue research activities when they commence teaching. Finding out about teachers' attitudes towards research has been one of the major research areas in the field of language teaching in recent years. However, the detailed literature review has shown that how the other interrelated people in schools approach teacher research engagement has been a relatively neglected field of inquiry. In an attempt to address this gap in the literature, the present study aimed to gain insight into the views and attitudes of different but related practitioners employed at a single educational institution towards research. To this end, 47 English language teachers, three administrators, and three teacher trainers working at the School of Foreign Languages (SFL) of a university in Northern Cyprus participated in this study. Through a questionnaire and follow-up interviews, teachers' conceptions of research, perceptions of their institutional research culture, how often they read and do language teaching/learning research, and the reasons behind the reported levels were investigated. With the other two participant groups, administrators and teacher trainers, semi-structured interviews were conducted to find out how they view research and its relationship with teaching and in what ways they support teachers' research engagement within the institution. The analysis of the data indicated that the methodology or the status of the researchers was not a reason for teachers' calling an activity research or not. The aim, organisation, and usefulness of an inquiry emerged as the main determinants of most teachers' assessments of good quality research. Regarding the research culture at the school, most agreed that their institution was conducive to research in important respects; ii however, the reported level of research involvement was not high. The lack of time and interest, the irrelevance of research to practice, and inadequate knowledge about research methods were the main reasons cited that hindered their productive research engagement, while the teachers engaged in research proved to be intrinsically motivated. The administrators and teacher trainers underlined the importance of practice-based research engagement arguing that it is a powerful tool that can contribute to the improvements in teaching, learning, and their institution as a whole. They provided support to researching teachers during the data collection by participating in their studies or offering school facilities to ease the process. However, the fact that research is not included in SFL teachers' job descriptions and overloaded teaching and nonteaching duties repeatedly surfaced as the major barriers to research activities at their school.
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