Practical Project Design
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Plan Your
Own Project
Task
1 The steps you should follow
Wing Ling found out about the necessary
steps she should follow in order to carry
out her classroom research. What about you?
Complete this table with what you have learned
from Professor Guide about the general steps
and methods of doing research. The boxes in
shade indicate more detailed knowledge and
understanding which will be dealt with at
a later stage.
What do you do?
What do you not do?
Wing Ling as an example
Stage
1
Not
any problem of any kind; Not loads of
problems
Problem
from her teaching experience: Some
of my students don't like doing pair
work?
Stage
2
Not
just experience, but experience can
be made valuable through scientific
scrutiny.
Stage
3
Stage
4
Stage
5
Stage
6
Hooray! Credits!
I complete my Help Yourself to
Advanced English!
Here is what you should basically write
in the table:
Stage 1 Think of a problem in your English
teaching
Stage 2 Understand your problem through problem
analysis by using
1. analytic method
2. Socratic dialogue
3. cause analysis
4. questionnaire
5. observation
6. brainstorming
Stage 3 Design a project to solve the problem
Stage 4 Implement, or carry out, the project
Stage 5 Evaluate your project: check if you
have reached your objectives
Stage 6 Write your project report
Go ahead with this unit and you will find
more about Stage 1. The other stages will
be discussed and demonstrated in much greater
detail in the units to follow.
