Mat, England
Action research is a great idea but I think it would benefit from having some accessible place to publish results, and have some researcher(s)analysing said results.

Suria,Brunei
I would like to know more about the effective strategies of action research in ELT.

J. Afonso, Brazil
The use of Action research has a great future, since teachers and students will get lots of results.

Innocent Mutale Mulenga, Zambia
I have taught fourth and third year students, Curriculum Studies, in the University of Zambia, school of education, department of language and social sciences education for one semester now and I have taught them on the importance of action research which I have done many times when I taught in secondary school and I am still doing it. I find action research very useful for me as a lecturer and a curriculum specialist.

Phuti, Botswana
I have done it during a research training exercise some many years ago, but now I do it unconsciously but do not publish results.

Pakistan
I strongly believe that Pakistani ELT teacher are not fully aware of the benefits of Action Research. The culture of Action Research has bright future if it is promoted through professionals. We can achieve marvelous results through AR as it not only promotes qualities of a Reflective Practitioner but also focus on learners centered approach. I would appreciated NUML, Islamabad, Pakistan for serving the cause of Action Research in Pakistan.

Nidia Cecchetto Reuter, Argentina
I always do action research in the classroom in order to know how my students construct the language. I work in private and state schools so I have to face different worlds as regards levels of language, previous knowledge, and above all the differences emerged from economic conditions. Unfortunately, a lot of students who attend to state schools live in poverty, and they do not have books or other necessary materials to learn. However, they are able to learn, as everybody else, but in a different way. I am concerned about language learning in different contexts especially in those in which students are in need. It is a difficult task, but not impossible. I have to take into account many aspects when planning in order to facilitate and permit the students to appropriate the language. I learn to teach in those contexts trough experience, that is to say, doing action research to improve my teaching practice. I constantly look closely at my assumptions. The idea is to understand the complex process of learning in context to adapt my teaching practice and to do so is only possible through doing research, watching and learning what happens in the classroom.

China
I know it, but in my country we have not chance do it.

Rabia
I think action research plays a vital role in development of student skills. It helps the teacher to analyse himself. He or she can develop learning skills also.

Pathi, India
For a person like me who has developed a lesson content plan for Spoken English on my own, the first day onwards I was doing it and evaluating each week, each month and each batch and getting feedback from my students all along. And this has helped me to shorten the time-frame they take to speak in English from the start of the course.

Tioera Loane
I would appreciate help if this method is promoting learning effectively to pupils who are under my care. Thanks

Monica, Argentina
I think it depends on the learners you are teaching. But, all the same it is very important to know the students' opinions and feelings about your teaching, the materials, books and themes you are teaching, feedback is very important for both the teacher and students.

Runston Perera
Action research helps the teacher to develop his or her profession. It gives more confidence in the profession and helps work with accountability.

Su, Taiwan
I think doing action research is a good way to make teaching more interesting sometimes and it can benefit both students and teachers most of the time. Teachers grow and learn from each other through their interactions during the research and records after the research. I think most of the teachers are actually doing action research all the time because they adjust their teaching during their teaching process all the time. Only they didn't record the cause and effect of their "tips". It's a pity that some good teaching experiences had not been recorded down this way as a result.

Mahani Abu Talib, Malaysia
I have heard about Action Research before but I have never tried it in my classroom. Can you assist me on how do I go about it and how does it benefit me as a teacher and also to my students? I really would like to give it a try, if it can help to improve teachings. Thank you very much.

V.Sankaranarayanan, India
The action research that I have been doing in my class in spoken English gives me the conviction that the software that is used in the language labs are of little use to students as they do not conform to the standards of students and so I have incorporated the spoken module in the text itself as a task. This difficulty may be because my students come from institutions where the medium of instruction is the regional language and that is Tamil

George Steed, Poland
Action Research seems to be similar to Operations Management's, Shewhart or Deming Cycle; 'Plan-Do-Study-Act'. Testing can evaluate not only student's learning but the teacher's teaching! Finland is reported to be educating in ways not similar anywhere else and achieving great results. As best I know, few are adapting their methods. Obviously, Action Research needs implementation of its successful results . But as we all know, change is often impossible.

Carmen Rhor, Perú
In fact, research should be the grounds of evolution in all walks of life. However, in my country research itself is actually very difficult, expensive and long mainly in ESL classes. I am currently doing AR due to the fact that I am preparing a paper in order to get my Masters Degree. So every class I test my students in order to collect valuable data that I will process later in order to achieve some measurable conclusions that will help us improve our standards. Hence, I couldn't agree more with the idea that AR should be done in every single class if we want to improve the TQM of our teaching. As I mentioned before, research demands a lot of effort and here in Peru we are not paid to do it; consequently, not many teachers have enough time to devote themselves to preparation, organization, evaluation and presentation of thorough AR papers. Definitely I consider it a must if we want to learn from our mistakes and improve our systems and methods so that we can be able to help our students learn in an effective, efficient and memorable way.

Harshini Lalwani, Paraguay
At the institute where we work, action research is carried out through peer observations, use of reflective journals or video taping classes for analysis of teaching which we do after lessons with the coordinator or a peer. In my experience AR has been an enriching source for teacher development.It confirms or refutes the theories of existing teaching methodologies and gives me concrete reasons for why something is workable in or inappropriate for my particular teaching context.