2.8.3 Goals of Action Research
The development of a teachers‟ professional is very essential for the time being. Although many teachers are in broad agreement with the general aims,
some give their thoughts about the exact aims of the actions research are and the impact of this research method upon their performance and output in their
teaching and learning process. Elliot 1991:18 states that the fundamental aim of action research is to
improve practice rather than to produce knowledge. Ferrance 2000:2 states that the goal of action research is searching for
solutions to everyday, real problems experienced in schools, or looking for ways to improve instruction and increase student achievement.
Borg 1965:313 believes that action research emphasizes the involvement of teachers in problems in their own classrooms and has as its primary goal the in-
service training and development of the teacher rather than the acquisition of general knowledge in the field of education.
Furthermore, Hopkins 1985:41 writes about the aim of conducting action research.
„....is give the teachers an introduction to the variety of methods available to them as a mean of extending their repertoire of professional behaviours and of
encouraging flexibility in personal development. These are methods and approaches that teachers can put into use, which empower them, and make them
increasingly competent and autonomous in professional judgement‟ Kemmis and Mc Taggart as quoted by Nunan 1992: 18 state that action
research is a group of activity and a piece of descriptive research carried out by a 33
teacher in his or her own classroom, without changing the phenomenon under investigation.
While Harmer 2001: 344 argues that action research is a series of procedures teachers can engage in, either because they wish to evaluate the
success and or appropriateness of certain activities and procedures. Based on the definition above, I can conclude that Action research is one
is a series of procedures, a group of activity and a piece of descriptive method and strategies which is used to search and solve learning problems which may be
faced in class, improve teacher‟s development, and increase the students achievements. They can be achieved by doing such action research circles or steps
systematically.
2.8.4 Steps in Doing Action Research
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