A handbook for Exploratory Action Research

Task 4.10 @
Go back to task 4.8. Try to rewrite the questions you identified as not SMART, to make them SMART-er.
Exploratory question
Edited question
(only those which need improvement)
1. What affects my students’ learning English?
2. When do my students use English to communicate with
each other?
3. Why don’t my students learn?
4. How many times do my students use their dictionaries
when doing their homework?
5. How can films promote my students’ motivation?
6. How often in my lesson do my students work in pairs? 

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| What shall I explore – and what are my questions?
Follow-up 
In her story, Daniela came up with a set of exploratory questions in order to understand her situation better.
To prepare for the next chapter, we suggest that you read her story here: 
http://bit.ly/Daniela-Gajardo
Fill in the boxes with notes about the different things she did in her research. Alternatively, ask and answer
the questions with a colleague:
Daniela’s research
1. What did she decide to explore?
2. What questions did she ask?
3. What did she do to gather information?
4. What information did she get? 

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5. How can I explore?
By asking yourself questions (or by having someone else ask you questions), 
as you did in the last chapter, you’ve already begun to explore the situation 
you chose to focus on, in the sense that you’ve begun to think carefully 
about it and have become more aware of what you do and what you don’t 
know. In this chapter, we will suggest how you can continue to reflect in this 
way and will also suggest some ways you can look for external sources of 
information to answer your exploratory questions. 

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