Foreign language

Conclusion

This chapter first described the setting and participants, instruments used for data collection, and the data collection procedures. Then, the data analysis procedures used to seek answer for the research questions were outlined. The following chapter will present the findings of the data analysis.

CHAPTER IV: DATA ANALYSIS

Introduction

This study evaluates EFL teachers‟ participation in reflective practice oriented (RP-oriented) online discussion forums. More specifically, it explores the reflection types (reflection-in, on and for-action) the participants engage in.

Thus, the study sought answers to the following research question:

1. In what types of reflection (reflection-in, on and for-action) do the experienced English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teachers engage in during their reflective practice oriented online discussions?

In order to answer the research questions, data were collected via three different instruments: a background information questionnaire, posted reflection papers that students wrote for their Methodology course and their follow-up online discussions sessions, and individually conducted semi-structured interviews. All qualitative data collected from the reflection papers, discussion comments and
interview transcriptions were analyzed according to Boyatzis‟ (1998) thematic analysis. First of all, the researcher categorized participants‟ assignments and discussion comments individually and went over their printed copies to define the codesand created the themes that emerged naturally over the codes. Afterwards, the researcher color-coded and related the emerging themes under three sensitizing concepts: a) reflection-on-on action, b) reflection-in action, and c) reflection-for- action according to description of reflection types suggested by Wilson (2008).
This chapter consists of one main section, addressing the research question,

in which the results of the data analysis are presented under the three sensitizingconcepts of reflection types as reflection-on-, -in- and -for-action.