Transforming Teaching and Learning through Research: EAR and SoTL in the ELT Classroom
Abstract
It becomes a prerequisite to enhancing teachers’ teaching and research skills to transform teaching and learning. Exploratory Action Research (EAR) and Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) can allow ELT practitioners to actively and critically research their practices and contexts, to analyse students’ learning process. The keynote address will focus on institutionalising EAR and SoTL that makes the research a part of teaching while rejecting the conventional belief that research might not be relevant to teaching and that it is the sole responsibility of researchers. It will also define EAR and SoTL with examples, discuss their benefits, and outline the procedures for conducting the discussed types.
Bio-note
Dr Hashil Al-Saadi is a language lecturer, researcher and research trainer at Sultan Qaboos University and holds a PhD in Education from the University of Sheffield, UK. His research interests include learner autonomy, teacher education, critical pedagogies, and qualitative research methodologies. He regularly presents at conferences, conducts PD workshops, reviews scholarly articles and examines MA Students.