Analytical tools for my project

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LIST OF ANALYTICAL TOOLS USED FOR MY ACTION RESEARCH PROJECT

The following are the tentative analytical tools I can use during my data analysis stage:

QUESTIONING

• Helps me probe

• Helps me develop provisional answers

• Helps me think outside the box

• Helps me become acquainted with the data

• Helps me observe frequency and patterns

• Helps me to synthesize, theorize, guide and provide direction


COMPARISONS

 • Helps me notice the obvious

• Helps me find relationships and differences

• Helps me categorize and to differentiate categories

• Helps me define incidents when they are not easy to detect

• Helps me clarify concepts and increase understanding

• Helps me theorize

• Helps me bring out properties and dimensions

• Helps me examine incidents one by one


WAVING THE RED FLAG

 • Helps me go beyond biases, assumptions and/or beliefs that affect the analysis

• Helps me wonder why things happen

• Helps me define just how often an incident occurs

• Helps me avoid becoming accepting with a partial truth


LOOKING AT LANGUAGE

 • Helps me see grammatical patterns especially in the accuracy of the simple past and past continuous tenses.

• Helps me realize why learners are committing the same errors over again during the implementation stage.



LOOKING FOR WORDS THAT INDICATE TIME

 • Helps me find out if they are becoming aware of the past time expressions in order to use the verbs in simple or continuous aspects in the past tense.


TIMELINES

 • Helps me detect the performance level of each student who participated throughout the entire process.



References

- Burns, A. (2010). Doing action research in English language teaching. New York: Routledge. pp. 107-140.

- Corbin, J. &Strauss, A. (2008). Basics of qualitative research: Grounded theory procedures and techniques. Sage Publications, Inc, 3rd edition. pp.45-64.