Research in the Language Classroom: State of the Art

Mohammad Ali Salmani-Nodoushan

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New trends in language teaching have resulted in a move towards research in the language classroom. A brief overview of classroom research reveals three distinct but inter-related research paradigms: classroom-centered research, classroom process research, and qualitative research, respectively.


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