Participant Lenses: The Findings Viewed from Different Standpoints

Abstract

The previous chapter presented the findings from a chronological point of view, and in doing so, emphasized the evolutionary and cyclical nature of this AR. Chapter 6 presents additional exploratory and comparative insights from the perspectives of the two participant sets (students and language educators) in order to provide a multi-faceted account of the LSI intervention. Student findings for each phase are combined and displayed so that side-by-side comparisons between each phase are possible. Comparisons of the various types of data aimed to achieve methodological triangulation, which can strengthen the credibility of the findings. Teacher interviews, classroom observations, the research journal, and peer debriefing served to augment the student findings through participant and investigator triangulation (Denzin, 1978).