Journal Review

REVIEW          

Name: Kurniawan Aji Prakoso

Class: 4E

NPM: 1910631060099

    This journal with the title The impact of research practice on professional teaching practice: Exploring EFL teachers’ perception was written by Masoud Rahimi & Hiwa Weisi in Cogent Education and first published in 25 May 2018. The purpouse of this research was to exploring the impact of English as a foreign language (EFL) teachers’ research practice on their professional teaching performance in English language teaching (ELT). Also this study explores the attitudes and perceptions of EFL teachers, who are actively engaged with and in research in ELT context. The findings can provide EFL teachers with valuable insights into the impact of reading and doing research in ELT context on professional teaching practice.  The method that used in this research was qualitative findings were used to explain by conducting an interview and refine the quantitative findings by examines EFL teachers’ research practice through a survey.

     The result towards the impact of the research practice on professional teaching practice by analysing the quantitative and qualitative data through a sequential explanatory mixed-methods approach explain that the positive attitudes and perceptions of EFL teachers. For example, the teachers claimed that doing and reading research develop their professional knowledge in ELT. The teachers in the present study also claimed that their research practice makes them think more reflectively and critically about the classroom issues. The participating teachers in this study further claimed that their research practice makes them become more self-confident in their teaching practice. As they read and do research studies, they have logical justifications for their teaching practice in the classroom which makes them more confident.

    This journal has several advantages such as: first, the use of words in this journal is easy to understand. In this journal, do not use terms that can confuse readers, so that readers can easily understand the content contained in this journal. Second, In this journal the author also lists in detail the results of the methodology he has done. In addition, the writer also attaches a questionnaire to the questionnaire he used in his research. Third, The authors also took research samples from various backgrounds. He took samples from various countries such as Iran, Indonesia, Japan, and Thailand. As the goal of the study was to obtain a broad perspective on the impact of EFL teacher research practice on their teaching performance, data were collected from teachers who were engaged with and in research in a number of EFL contexts around the world. The participants’ age ranged between 26 and 37 years, and their teaching experience varied from 2 to 20 years.

    Also, the researcher suggest that educational policymakers should invoke research practice in EFL teachers by providing them a supporting context in which they conduct research about their professional teaching practice and students’ learning. It also behoves teacher educators to train EFL teachers to read and conduct research appropriately to better deal with their classroom issues.

 

Source:  Masoud Rahimi & Hiwa Weisi | (2018) The impact of research practice
on professional teaching practice: Exploring EFL teachers’ perception, Cogent Education, 5:1,
1480340

To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.1080/2331186X.2018.1480340