EVALUATING THE QUALITY OF MY RESEARCH

CRITERIA FOR GROUNDED THEORY STUDIES

(Base on Charmaz, 2009)

Research question: TO WHAT EXTENT CAN COOPERATIVE LEARNING-BASED ACTIVITIES—PARTICIPATING IN AN ONLINE RADIO SHOW—FOSTER SPEAKING CONFIDENCE IN 8TH GRADERS FROM LA CHUCUA SCHOOL?

INCOMPLETE CODING

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After the tutorial session, I realized that I need to reconsider the categories, taking into account that I focused the categorization only on language. I need to think about my objectives and my research questions, and consequently, the constructs. For example, how the participation in radio helped my students to foster speaking confidence? How influenced the cooperative learning enhance it?

I have found that interaction, the aspect that I mentioned in the previous post can be included as a pattern of cooperative learning. So I need to revise again the data that I collected in order to improve my preliminary findings.

Thinking about my article....

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The first aspect that came to my mind in the moment to write an article regarded to the audience that I would like to reach. In this sense, I would like to write for my peers, the academic community. That is why I would like that my article was read from Profile Journal (Universidad Nacional de Colombia) and/or Colombian Applied Linguistics Journal (Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas), so I am going to look for information about their requirements to write a journal and the deadline of the call for submissions. Anyway, I will ask to my project director, Professor Liliana Cuesta in order to receive guidance in this issue.

Based on Peat (2002) and Radu and Thaler (2009), in addition to getting this information at hand, my plan is as follows:

Now, the steps that I am going to write the first draft is as follows, based on Peat (2002), and adapted to my interest (publishing at Profile Journal).

References

Peat, J. et al. (2002). Getting started. Scientific writing: Easy when you know how. London, GRB: Publishing group. 12 – 47

Radu, A. & Thaler, I (2009). How to write and Academic Paper: Some suggestions [pdf document] Retrieved March 23, 2010.