1. Name
: Shinta Ari Herdiana
SRN
: 1001120553
Subject
: Writing IV
Action research is about working towards practical outcomes, and also about creating
new forms of understanding (Mackey and Gass, 2005:115), and contextual, small-scale and
localized that identifies and investigates problems within a specific situation (McKay, 2006:30).
In this point an action research is a process to create new strategy of understanding.
Sources :
Mackey, Alison and Gass, Susan M. Second Language Research. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates,
2005
McKay, Sandra Lee. Researching Second Language Classrooms. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates,
2006