Mistakes Made by Foreign Language Teachers in Conducting Classroom Research in A Large Private School in Rayong
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This study was designed 1) to explore the scope for mistakes made by foreign language teachers while conducting classroom research, and 2) proposing suggestions to minimize the mistakes. This study is a qualitative study applying the Phenomenological research strategy. Twelve Thai foreign language teachers with at least two years of experience teaching Chinese, English, or Japanese in a selected large private school in Rayong, Thailand, were participants in this study. Purposive sampling was applied to identify the informants. The data collection method was semi-structured interviews. To code and categorize the obtained data systematically, this study followed the steps of data analysis proposed by Moustakas (1994), ATLAS. ti, which is the qualitative software for data analysis, was utilized to analyze the data. This study found five main misunderstandings while Thai foreign language teachers were conducting classroom research
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