Tag Archives: research in TESOL

Critical Discourse Analysis for Classroom-Based Research

Mariana Alvayero Ricklefs
Mariana Alvayero Ricklefs

TESOL International Association’s research agenda calls for research informed by practice. This call empowers scholar-practitioners to systematically observe and investigate activities in diverse TESOL contexts. In this blog post, I share how I used critical discourse analysis (CDA) for research … Continue reading

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Identifying TESOL’s Future Research Priorities

Scott Douglas
Scott Douglas

This blog is part of the TESOL Research Professional Council (RPC) Blog series. The TESOL International Association’s professional councils support the association’s objectives with professional knowledge and advice. One of seven professional councils, the Research Professional Council (RPC) focuses on … Continue reading

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Recent Research Trends in ELT: A Look at TESOL Quarterly

Scott Douglas
Scott Douglas

This blog is part of the TESOL Research Professional Council (RPC) Blog series. Part of the work of the TESOL Research Professional Council (RPC) is to identify research trends in teaching English as an additional language. Published research is one … Continue reading

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What’s New at the Research Professional Council?

Jessie Curtis
Jessie Curtis

This blog is part of the TESOL Research Professional Council (RPC) Blog series. TESOL’s Research Professional Council highlights new research through teachers’ own stories of real-time engagement in times of challenge and change.

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The TESOL Research Agenda and Changing Language Landscapes

Jessie Curtis
Jessie Curtis

This blog is part of the TESOL Research Professional Council (RPC) Blog series. In keeping with the TESOL Research Agenda as a tool for identifying future directions for inquiry by researchers and practitioners, we consider language learning and teaching and … Continue reading

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Research Matters to TESOL

Deena Boraie
Deena Boraie

I am delighted to announce the completion of TESOL International Association’s 2014 Research Agenda (RA). We hope you will find it of interest and value to you. This RA is the result of the work of a task force consisting … Continue reading

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More Thoughts on Bridging the Research-Practice Divide

Li-Shih Huang
Li-Shih Huang

I wrote the following piece on October 22, 2012, a few days after reading Penny Ur’s article. Reading the tweet from @TESOL _Assn about an excellent response (“Bridging the Gap between Research and Classroom Practice“) to Ur’s article on the … Continue reading

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Bridging the Gap Between Research and Classroom Practice

Deena Boraie
Deena Boraie

In an interesting article in the Guardian Weekly of October 16, 2012 (“How Useful is TESOL Academic Research?“), Penny Ur asks an important question about TESOL academic research for classroom teachers. She acknowledges the gap between classroom practice and research, … Continue reading

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