Data Collection Tools

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These are the data collection tools I chose to employ during the intervention stage of my Action Research Project:

• Needs Analysis through Voxopop (pre and post test): This test will help me detect the problems students have when they use the past tenses and it will also help me to see the final results in terms of students' improvement in the use of the past tenses.

• Initial, mid and final surveys through Encuesta facil:  It will help me determine the population that I am going to intervene as well as to know what are their beliefs in their use of English, their opinions about their progress and the implementation in general. At the end of the process they will draw a final conclusion if they felt that the approach actually helped them to improve their accuracy and up to what extent.

• Artifacts (Voxopop): These are all the speaking activities where students get to peer and self monitor their accuracy of past tenses. This will be also used as the means where learners do six speaking tasks with the purpose of implementing the strategies and progress will be shown.

• Students' reflection log (Nabble): This application has the specific objective of getting students to reflect upon their partners' problems and progresses in the use of past tenses.

• Transcripts: These will show the progress students have made in using the past tenses as well as the use of the monitoring strategies (peer and self-correction).

• Research journal through Blogger: Here is where I write about my impressions about the implementation process. It is also a tool for reflection and planning the next steps.

• Rubrics: This tool will give me (and my students as well ) a more concrete idea from my students' real progress in terms of the improvement of accuracy and the implementation of the self and peer correction strategies.