Mixed Methods and Action Research: similar or different?
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Mixed methods
Action research
ELT

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Wiśniewska, D. (2011). Mixed Methods and Action Research: similar or different?. Glottodidactica, 37, 59–72. https://doi.org/10.14746/gl.2011.37.5

Résumé

This article attempts to analyse and compare ELT studies grounded solely in mixed methods and ELT action research studies based on a mixed methods approach in order to identify to what degree action research studies combining different methods in a single study comply with the principles of rigorous mixed methods study.
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