Teaching Productive Skills to the Students: a secondary Level Scenario

3.1 
Research Design 
 
This paper followed a mixed method research approach (both qualitative and 
quantitative) for data collection and analysis. 
According to John Creswell, “Mixed 
methods research is a research design (or methodology) in which the researcher 
collects, analyzes and mixes (integrates or connects) both quantitative and qualitative 
data in a single study or a multiphas
e program of inquiry”. Mixed method helps to 
analyze data in all possible ways. It provides a broader perspective of the study and 
helps the researcher to assemble a deeper understanding of the fact of interest. It is 
becoming increasingly a part of research practice and also taking place of the third 
major research approach along with quantitative and qualitative research (Jonson, 
Onwuegbuzie, & Turner, 2007, p.119). 
3.2 
Instruments of Data Collection 
To conduct the survey two instruments have been used for collecting data and 
they are: 
a. 
Questionnaire for students 
b. 
Questionnaire for 
Teachers‟ interview 

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Questionnaire provides qualitative data, interview provides qualitative data for the 
study.For conducting the research, the researcher used a questionnaire survey and also 
took interview of the teachers of schools of Bangladesh. The questioner was given to 
the students to find out the way they learnwriting and speaking. On the other hand the 
view of teachers came up through interview. 
3.2.1 Written Questionnaire 
Questionnaire is the most usually used research instrument and Dornyei and 
Taguchi said in Questionnaires in second language research: Construction, 
Administration, and 
processing (2010), “Asking question is one of the most natural ways 
of gathering information.” (p.1). Here the author indicated that by questionnaire survey 
the researcher is able to get the most natural response from the participants. James 
Dean Brown in his book Using Surveys in language Programs (2001) stated, 
“Questionnaires are any written instruments that present respondents with a series of 
questions statements to which they are to react either by writing out their answers or 
selecting 
from existing answers” (p. 6).