This book presents a fresh view of action research as a methodology uniquely suited to researching the processes of innovation and change. Drawing on twenty-five years' experience of leading or facilitating action research projects, Bridget Somekh argues that action research can be a powerful systematic intervention, which goes beyond describing, analyzing and theorizing practices to reconstruct and transform those practices.

This hands-on, practical guide for ESL/EFL teachers and teacher educators outlines, for those who are new to doing action research, what it is and how it works. Straightforward and reader friendly, it introduces the concepts and offers a step-by-step guide to going through an action research process, including illustrations drawn widely from international contexts. Specifically, the text addresses:

Action research can make you a “student of teaching” (John Dewey).
Action research or Classroom Action Research has been enacted in many classrooms throughout the world. I myself conduct several research with this type of research. In this post,  I’d like to inform the readers about what an action research is, why teachers should do action research, what the steps in the action research process are, where your research questions come from, and what evidence you can take to see whether your solution has worked out or not.


What is action research?