Classroom Research in a Chinese Context: A Review
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David Nunan
Summary
The theme of this special issue is classroom research. Locating research inside the classroom, rather than in experimental or laboratory settings, is assuming more and more importance in applied linguistics these days, so this special issue is timely. If classrooms are constituted specifically for the purposes of language learning and teaching, then it is reasonable to look there for answers to the questions that we have.
This issue contains six empirical investigations into aspects of English language teaching in Chinese college contexts. They provide important insights into substantive issues within those contexts as well as illustrating a range of methods that can be deployed in classroom research.
Before turning to a review of the articles, I will address some terminological issues including what we mean when we talk about research, the characteristics of classroom research, and the nature of research paradigms.
© 2011 Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press Co. Ltd., Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin/Boston and Cultural and Education Section British Embassy
Articles in the same Issue
- Message from the Guest Editor
- Developing Chinese Undergraduate English-Majors' Research Article Writing Competence
- A Study of the Effects of the Content-Based Instruction for English Majors in the Chinese Context
- A New Model in English Language Teaching in China: The Case of Shantou University
- Promoting Student Participation in Seminar Courses: A Case Study
- The Concept of “Object” in Activity Theory and Its Application in Classroom Research: A Case Study of a Phonetics Course
- Scaffolding in Teacher-Student Interaction: A Case Study in Two Oral English Classes in China
- Classroom Research in a Chinese Context: A Review
- The Relative Significance of Vocabulary Breadth and Syntactic Knowledge in the Prediction of Reading Comprehension Test Performance
- Chinese Abstracts
Articles in the same Issue
- Message from the Guest Editor
- Developing Chinese Undergraduate English-Majors' Research Article Writing Competence
- A Study of the Effects of the Content-Based Instruction for English Majors in the Chinese Context
- A New Model in English Language Teaching in China: The Case of Shantou University
- Promoting Student Participation in Seminar Courses: A Case Study
- The Concept of “Object” in Activity Theory and Its Application in Classroom Research: A Case Study of a Phonetics Course
- Scaffolding in Teacher-Student Interaction: A Case Study in Two Oral English Classes in China
- Classroom Research in a Chinese Context: A Review
- The Relative Significance of Vocabulary Breadth and Syntactic Knowledge in the Prediction of Reading Comprehension Test Performance
- Chinese Abstracts
