REFLECTION ON ACTION RESEARCH

REFLECTION

ON

ACTION RESEARCH

Within the development of the world, researchers try to conduct several researches to find out the issues which will happen and are happening in the society. Every aspect of society is conducted the research such economy, politics, democracy, development, environment, poverty, education and professional development. Moreover, there are many different kinds of research are conducted through different kinds of strategies, but when we think of classroom research we always think of Action Research rather than other research strategies because Action Research provides four advantages to language education.

First of all, Action Research will provide the opportunity for the language teachers to reflect themselves on their ability in teaching and impetus them to learn more. Action Research in language teaching seems to be a reflection in which language teachers do to reflect themselves on the ways they teach the students. As Carr & Kennis (1986, 220) said Action Research is self-reflective enquiry and Anne Burne (2010, p.3) also said Action Research involves taking a self-reflective, critical, and systematic approach to exploring language teacher own teaching contexts. Therefore, the teachers will be able to develop their profession in language teaching through their daily practice and when they have seen what they teach are different from what they have learnt they will learn more techniques or proficiency in language.

Secondly, Action Research also provides effective learning and teaching. Actually, language learning and teaching are very important for both students and teachers. If the teachers can find the effective method or approach to teach the students the students will be able to learn faster, so Action Research will help teachers to find out the ways that teachers teach and the ways that their students learn. The teachers have to discover on what they have taught and on what their students have learnt because the teachers will know what kinds of method are effective or what kinds of method are not effective. The teachers do not just teach the students without knowing that the students learn or not. Moreover, if the teachers want to be the professional ones they have to conduct Action Research because Action Research will help them to improve their teaching and their students’ learning and teaching and learning will provide effective methods and approaches according to the mean or contexts of learning and teaching.

Thirdly, Action Research provides opportunity to use various teaching techniques with effective classroom management. Anne Burne (2010, p. 6) said Action Research encourages teachers to reach their own solution and conclusion and this is far more attractive and has more impact than being presented with ideals. Classroom management is the kind of method use to describe the process of ensuring that classroom lessons run smoothly despite disruptive behavior by students. Classroom management can provide the good environment for teaching and learning process and if we want the effective teaching and learning, we need to have classroom management because classroom management ensures the effective learning and teaching. So, Action Research will provide the opportunity to the teachers to explore what their classroom management is and then they can decide the tasks according the students’ needs. Action Research can help teachers to know about their teaching method and students’ learning within the teaching and learning environment. The interaction between teaching and learning in classroom is called classroom management if the classroom management is good the student cannot learn and teachers cannot teach properly.

Finally, Action Research will provide a great deal of chance for language educators who will learn the new methods and approaches. The teachers cannot use the same methods or techniques as long as they have taught, so they have to find out the new methods and approaches to improve the ways they are teaching. The teachers will be able to change their ways of teaching through undertaking Action Research. The ways of students act are changed daily and the ways of students’ learning are also changed so the teachers need to learn the new ways of teaching in order to match the learning and teaching situation.

In short, Action Research is very important for educators because it is the on-going process observation or investigation. We can say that Action Research is a learning and teaching self-reflection because it collects all learning and teaching information which the teacher can reflect from what they have done. When the teachers can collect the information they will make a positive change toward their teaching method and various teaching approaches will be used according to the situation contexts of lessons. Therefore, Action Research is the method that the teachers use to collect their teaching information through observation and investigation and this information can be an impetus to build up teachers’ profession. All language teachers should conduct their own Action Research on their practice teaching.