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Introduction to Research

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This first chapter introduces the idea of research that could be suited to pre-service teachers by highlighting the essential issues and relevant key questions regarding learning to do research for professional development. The chapter discusses reflection, inquiry, and research and links these processes to the practical contexts such as classroom. While the chapter draws on the differences between qualitative and quantitative paradigms briefly, it focuses relatively more on the research as a tool for generating contextual knowledge and accessing evidence that could inform pre-service teachers’ understandings and learning of language teaching. It proposes research as a key contextual teacher learning strategy combined with inquiry skills through discovery and exploration. The chapter ends with tasks about exploring context and encourages teachers to develop their initial puzzling questions.

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  1. Faculty of Arts and Education, University of Stavanger, Stavanger, Norway

    Kenan Dikilitaş

  2. School of Foreign Languages, Iskenderun Technical University, Hatay, Turkey

    Ali Bostancıoğlu

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Dikilitaş, K., Bostancıoğlu, A. (2019). Introduction to Research. In: Inquiry and Research Skills for Language Teachers. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21137-0_1

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