Course Title

Action Research in TEFL Majors (10513430)

Course Number

10513430)

Instructor Name

Ahmed Raba'

Contact Information

[email protected]

Semester(s) and academic year(s)

First Semester 2
Summer Semester 1
Second Semester 1

Compulsory / Elective

Compulsory

This compulsory course is offered by The Faculty of Education and Teacher Training at An-Najah National University/Palestine. This course aims at providing course takers with adequate knowledge of proposal writing. It also aims to support learners in becoming reflective practitioners, competent educational researchers through intensive exposure to adequate research and current studies related and action research done in the area of teaching English for the natives and non-natives.

Objectives

By the end of the first academic semester 2020-2021, the learners will be able to

-Develop   the ability to create one’s own teaching and learning materials.

-Acquire arrange of practical teaching ideas and material.

-Recognize the different parts of “Action Research in Practicum”

-Write action research

-Defend their own action research

Objectives

By the end of the first academic semester 2020-2021, the learners will be able to

-Develop   the ability to create one’s own teaching and learning materials.

-Acquire arrange of practical teaching ideas and material.

-Recognize the different parts of “Action Research in Practicum”

-Write action research

-Defend their own action research

Objectives

By the end of the first academic semester 2020-2021, the learners will be able to

-Develop   the ability to create one’s own teaching and learning materials.

-Acquire arrange of practical teaching ideas and material.

-Recognize the different parts of “Action Research in Practicum”

-Write action research

-Defend their own action research

Objectives

By the end of the first academic semester 2020-2021, the learners will be able to

-Develop   the ability to create one’s own teaching and learning materials.

-Acquire arrange of practical teaching ideas and material.

-Recognize the different parts of “Action Research in Practicum”

-Write action research

-Defend their own action research

Objectives

By the end of the first academic semester 2020-2021, the learners will be able to

-Develop   the ability to create one’s own teaching and learning materials.

-Acquire arrange of practical teaching ideas and material.

-Recognize the different parts of “Action Research in Practicum”

-Write action research

-Defend their own action research

Objectives

By the end of the first academic semester 2020-2021, the learners will be able to

-Develop   the ability to create one’s own teaching and learning materials.

-Acquire arrange of practical teaching ideas and material.

-Recognize the different parts of “Action Research in Practicum”

-Write action research

-Defend their own action research

Intended Learning Outcomes:

-Judge a good action research

- Write action research according to the APA format.

Checkland, P. "From framework through experience to learning: the essential nature of action research," in Information Systems Research: Contemporary Approaches and Emergent Traditions, H-E. Nissen, H.K. Klein, R.A. Hirschheim (eds.), North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1991, pp. 397-403.

Jonsson, S. "Action Research," in Information Systems Research: Contemporary Approaches and Emergent Traditions, H-E. Nissen, H.K. Klein and R.A. Hirschheim (eds.), North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1991.

Levin, M. "Action Research and Critical Systems Thinking: Two Icons Carved Out of the Same Log?", Systems Practice (7:1), 1994, pp. 25-41.

Mansell, G. "Action research in information systems development," Journal of Information Systems (1), 1991, pp. 29-40.

Warmington, A. "Action Research: Its Methods and its Implications," Journal of Applied Systems Analysis (7), 1980, pp. 23-39.

Wood-Harper, A.T. "Research Methods in Information Systems: Using Action Research," in Research Methods in Information Systems, E. Mumford, R.A. Hirschheim, G. Fitzgerald and A.T. Wood-Harper (eds.), North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1985.