Classroom Teaching and related Research Paradigms

This paper will provide an overview of the characteristics of major Educational Research Paradigms shaping contemporary Educational Research. In this unit, the Paper will examine how and why teachers should be encouraged to reflect and analyse their own Teaching and the Classroom Context. The Paper will present how the notion of Research in ELT has developed, and how a new Paradigm of Reflective classroom-based Research has evolved. The Main purpose is to orient students, faculty and beginning Researchers to the newer Paradigms that enable Researchers to undertake uniquely powerful and insightful inquiries that contribute to transforming the landscape of Education.