Attitude and actual practices of classroom action research of English teachers

Abstract

The purposes of the present study were to investigate English teachers’ 1) attitudes towards conducting classroom action research, 2) actual practices of conducting classroom action research, 3) problems in conducting classroom action research, and 4) expectation of conducting classroom action research.  The current study is survey research and the population included 17 English teachers of Muang Lanna Municipality (pseudonym) schools.  The data were collected from 17 English teachers. The research instrument was a questionnaire constructed by the researchers.  Percentage, Mean and Standard Deviation were adopted for data analysis.  The findings revealed that 1) the teachers’ overall attitudes towards conducting classroom action research were at a high level. 2) The teachers’ overall practices of conducting classroom action research were at a highest level. 3) The teachers’ overall problems concerning conducting classroom action research were at a high level. 4) The teachers’ overall expectation of conducting classroom action research was at a high level. The results of the present study suggest that the research grants should be accessible to English teachers to conduct their own classroom action research.  The factors affecting the teachers in carrying out the classroom action research should be examined and in-depth study of English teachers’ undertaking classroom action research should be adopted.