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Borg, Simon – Language Teaching Research, 2001
Illustrates the significant contribution journal writing can make to deepening researchers' understanding of all facets of the research processes. Argues that such journals can provide other researchers with illuminating insight into the research process. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Journal Writing, Language Research, Research Methodology, Researchers

Loewen, Shawn – Language Teaching Research, 2003
Investigates English-as-a-Second-Language classes in Auckland, New Zealand to compare the frequency and characteristics of incidental focus on form episodes occurring in these classes. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Grammar

Miller, Kristyan Spelman – Language Teaching Research, 2000
Describes an approach to the study of writing processes based on the analysis of temporal aspects of the writing event. The approach involves recording the keystroke presses made during production of a text using a word processor, and analyzing such features as pausing, fluency, and revision activity. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: College Students, Data Collection, Higher Education, Language Fluency
New Understandings of Gender and Language Classroom Research: Texts, Teacher Talk, and Student Talk.

Sunderland, Jane – Language Teaching Research, 2000
Illustrates subtleties and complexities of gender in language education, and suggests implications of research for educational practice. Demonstrates alternatives for research into gender and language classrooms, showing both how the more familiar approaches can be fruitfully developed and how researchers can go beyond them. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Classroom Research, Language Research, Language Teachers

Miller, Ines – Language Teaching Research, 2003
Provides theoretical background to Exploratory Practice (EP) and illustrates how the framework of EP can be invoked in the context of doctoral research. Reports on a doctoral study that focuses on one the researcher's professional development as an EP teacher-consultant. (VWL)
Descriptors: Classroom Research, Consultants, Doctoral Degrees, English (Second Language)