Towards the implementation of action research in teacher education : a model for EFL teacher

Abstract EN

Teaching English as a Foreign Language has been the subject of inquiry over the years.

How to develop effective teaching methods? How to improve teaching quality? What materials to use? How to integrate technology for a better teaching of the FL? and many more questions are frequently posed about ways of teaching, instructional means, the learners, etc rather than the teacher.

Teachers are the main agents in this TEFL enterprise and not much has been done to investigate their route towards professional development especially in FL contexts.

This paper suggests the implementation of action research as a design for teachers to become researchers in their own classrooms.

It is an urgent need for FL teachers to undertake an inquiry stance to become producers of research results in their own contexts rather than just consumers of what other researchers find.

Thus, this paper introduces action research, justifies the need for its implementation in FL settings and provides some models of this design to be used by teachers for the improvement of teacher education and their practices in the EFL classroom.