Developing Language Teacher Autonomy through Action Research

Kenan Dikilitaş is Assistant Professor in the ELT Department at Bahçeşehir University, İstanbul, Turkey. He has published articles and edited books on teacher research as a professional development strategy. His primary research interests are language teacher education and educational research. He is one of the committee members of IATEFL ReSIG.Carol Griffiths is Associate Professor at Sabahattin Zaim Üniversitesi, İstanbul, Turkey. She has been a teacher, manager and teacher trainer of ELT for many years. She has taught in many places around the world, including New Zealand, Indonesia, Japan, China, North Korea, UK and Turkey. She has presented at numerous conferences and published widely.

• Chapter 1. Introduction to Action Research.- Chapter 2. Clarifying the research questions or hypotheses.- Chapter 3. Research methods: options and issues.- Chapter 4. Thinking about the context: setting (where?) and participants (who?).- Chapter 5. Collecting the data.- Chapter 6. Analysing the data.- Chapter 7. Discussing the data.- Chapter 8. Example studies.- Chapter 9. Presenting and writing up the action research.- Chapter 10. Action researcher narratives.- Chapter 11. Conclusion.