Profile: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development (Jan 2018)

Teacher to Researcher: Reflections on a New Action Research Program for University EFL Teachers

  • Anne Burns,
  • Anne Westmacott

DOI
https://doi.org/10.15446/profile.v20n1.66236
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 20, no. 1
pp. 15 – 23

Abstract

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One of the current challenges facing many universities is how to support teachers in becoming researchers. This article discusses the experiences at a small private Chilean university of a new action research programme that was developed as a vehicle for helping teachers to become involved in research and write a research publication for peer-reviewed journals. We present findings from research into similar programmes about relevant factors for their success, describe the programme developed at the university with five English as a Foreign Language teachers in 2016, and discuss some reflections on this first year of the programme.

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