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Small, local studies of real, relevant needs are most useful and relevant to
stakeholders and policy makers.
There is equal interest in how the majority may confirm a hypothesis and
how a minority may depart from it.
Dont try to save the worldjust find out something important to improve
your teaching and your students learning.
explore.
o Use the procedure in class ('data collection').
c Reflection and interpretation
o Interpret the outcomes.
d Implications
o Decide on implications and plan accordingly.
Seven Principles of EP
Why seven principles?
We need fundamental global principles for general guidance (eg, bringing
people together is more fruitful than pushing people apart). We must then
work out the implications of these for our everyday local practice (How can
we get our students to work together in our particular context?). Thinking
about acting locally in a principled way generates more thinking about our
global principles, and helps us to develop these. 'Think globally, act locally'.
The principles
Put quality of life first.
Work primarily to understand classroom life (cf action research, which
aims to solve problems).
Involve everybody (ie, learners are co-researchers).
Work to bring people together (atmosphere of collegiality).
Work for mutual development.
Integrate the work for understanding into classroom practice (EP
should not be 'parasitic').
Make the work a continuous enterprise.
The first point to capture ones attention about EP is the emphasis that research
isdone for the service of teaching. Doing research should not block or burden
teachers;rather it should enhance the practice of teachers and make the process
of teachingmore enjoyable. Allwright and Lenzuen (1997) define EP as:
a name given to a sustainable way of carrying out classroom investigations
which providelanguage teachers (and potentially learners also) with a systematic
framework within which todefine areas of language teaching that they wish to
explore, to refine their thinking about themand to investigate them further using
classroom activities, rather than academic
researchtechniques, as the investigative tool.