The do's and dont's of research in ELT (continued)

In the afternoon session of "Doing Good Quality ELT Research" PCE, we continued to criticise bad examples of research designs and find the problems of them in relations to the “friends”(!) of ELT researchers: validity, reliability, generalizability and objectivity. We realised that it was a very effective way of learning!

Another very useful activity was to analyse the reviewer comments made on the actual research reports, which provided me and other novice researchers an insight with the critical issues to take into consideration while writing research articles.

Towards the end of the PCE, we went back to the questions that we raised at the start of the day and saw that we were actually ready to come up with our own research questions to start the tough process.

For those of you to get published in an academic journal, the key issue is not to aim for top journals, start from the other journals and raise the research quality by analysing the research papers, styles and instructions of the journal you aim for.

I am thankful to Professor Simon Borg for his enthusiasm and guidance. I left the PCE event with a good-quality research proposal that was given us, top resources for further reading and inspiration to conduct research in ELT!