DIARY KEEPING IN ENGLISH LESSONS

Yıl 2012, Cilt: 7 Sayı: 4, 1082 - 1094, 01.05.2012

Elif Kır

https://izlik.org/JA73GX94KS

Öz

In
this study, the diaries kept both by the students and the teacher were used as
a research tool in order to learn what makes a language lesson good or bad and
find out the difficulties experienced by the students. For this purpose, both
the students at a state primary school and their English language teacher kept
diaries during the English classes for one term. In addition to the diary
entries, they kept notes and filled in charts prepared by the researcher. The
study included 47 students at 7^th grade. The diaries were collected
on weekly basis for 13 weeeks. The entries were first analyzed without focusing
on any subject. In the second analysis, the most repeated items related to the
research questions were identified and they were grouped under some specific
titles. While 9 groups emerged from the analysis of the teacher’s entries, 6
groups emerged from the analysis of the students’ entries. 

Anahtar Kelimeler

Reflective Language Teaching , Diary Keeping , Introspective Research , Teacher Education , Student’s Perceptions