- Exploring existing data from students’ written work ( essay, exercises …), from teachers’ writings, notes, diaries … and from other documents like class registers, letters from. pare[r]
Trang 1Identifying a focus for action research
Supervisor : Dr Hannah Pillay
Student : Vu Viet Trung
Task : Refining my concern
Aim of the activity : To refine the focus identified as a possible
action research area
My concern What should I do to help my students to concentrate and save time when doing group work ?
When doing group work, my students seem to waste a lot
of time I want to increase the amount of task-oriented
for
Trang 2• From the issue I have identified, I want to know :
• Which students are not interested in group work and often waste time ?
• In which activities they waste time to involve with ?
• How will the group work be effected when students waste time ?
• Will students pay more attention to their work if I give them clear instructions and more task-oriented ?
• Which activities I have to do to concentrate students to their
work ?
• What possibilities do I have for changing the situation?
Trang 3To help me make some judgments about my concern, I think I can
interviews, written surveys, tape and video recorders,
feedback…
How ?
- Attending direct and selective observations, being observed
then give feedback
- Exploring existing data from students’ written work ( essay,
exercises …), from teachers’ writings, notes, diaries … and
from other documents like class registers, letters from
parents
- Collecting written surveys from samples, from myself, my
colleagues
- Interviewing colleagues, students
- Tape recording students’ work and what I and my colleagues
applied then compare