Reading Log Journal

Day 1 Monday Date : 08 Mei 2017
Time	21.31
First Title	Trends, Issues, and Challenges in Assessing Young Language Learners.
Sources	From my lecture
Background	The aim of this chapter is to offer insights into recent trends, emerging issues and challenges in the field of teaching and assessing young language learners and to outline which aspects the chapters in this volume highlight in various educational contexts.
Research question (s)	The findings may not directly translate into other situations, therefore, readers are expected to critically reflect on them and analyze how the lessons learnt can be relevant.
Research Procedure	Outlining the most important recent trends in early language learning, discussing the most frequent challenges policies makers, introducing and explaining how they are embedded in the trends, the last is suggesting.
Result / Findings	Hasn’t finished
Conclusion	Hasn’t finished
The amount of paragraphs	43 paragraphs
What makes you interested in this journal	We could imagine how challenges being faced in young learners teaching.
Comment after reading	Hasn’t finished
New Vocabularies found	Emerging.

Day 2 Tuesday Date : 09 Mei 2017
Time	09.34
First Title	Trends, Issues, and Challenges in Assessing Young Language Learners.
Sources	From my lecture
Background	The aim of this chapter is to offer insights into recent trends, emerging issues and challenges in the field of teaching and assessing young language learners and to outline which aspects the chapters in this volume highlight in various educational contexts.
Research question (s)	The findings may not directly translate into other situations, therefore, readers are expected to critically reflect on them and analyze how the lessons learnt can be relevant.
Research Procedure	Outlining the most important recent trends in early language learning, discussing the most frequent challenges policies makers, introducing and explaining how they are embedded in the trends, the last is suggesting.
Result / Findings	The studies in this volume discuss various aspects of test development, outcomes of large-scale surveys, national assessment projects, and innovative smaller-scale studies. The ideas shared and the frameworks and instruments used for data collection should be of interest to both novice and experienced teachers, materials and test developers, as well as for researchers.
Conclusion	Researchers, including classroom teachers, should consider how replication studies could offer useful information on learners’ achievements in their countries and classrooms. Data collection instruments can be of invaluable help with instructions on how to apply them
The amount of paragraphs	43 paragraphs
What makes you interested in this journal	We could imagine how challenges being faced in young learners teaching.
Comment after reading	-
New Vocabularies found	-

Day 3 Wednesday Date : 10 Mei 2017
Time	09.37
First Title	Teacher Narratives in Teacher Development : Focus on Diary Studies
Sources	From my lecture
Background	This article discusses diary writing as one of the best tools for developing reflective thinking, which can be employed in a variety of teaching and learning contexts, for both experienced and inexperienced/pre-service teachers. Diaries are instances of teacher narratives that contribute to constructing professional knowledge, as they record and interpret teachers’ stories in a systematic fashion and are contextualized in the teacher’s working environment.
Research question (s)	Hasn’t finished
Research Procedure	Hasn’t finished
Result / Findings	Hasn’t finished
Conclusion	Hasn’t finished
The amount of paragraphs	45 paragraphs
What makes you interested in this journal	I think researching on diary studies reflection would be interesting
Comment after reading	Hasn’t finished
New Vocabularies found	Contextualized, instances.

Day 4 Thrusday Date : 11 Mei 2017
Time	21.30
First Title	Teacher Narratives in Teacher Development : Focus on Diary Studies
Sources	From my lecture
Background	This article discusses diary writing as one of the best tools for developing reflective thinking, which can be employed in a variety of teaching and learning contexts, for both experienced and inexperienced/pre-service teachers. Diaries are instances of teacher narratives that contribute to constructing professional knowledge, as they record and interpret teachers’ stories in a systematic fashion and are contextualized in the teacher’s working environment.
Research question (s)	The motivation for them comes from teachers’ desire to comprehend their own practices and to improve them. Also, writing is fundamental to thinking as it allows the writer to name, categorize and interpret and, later on, re-interpret experiences at first subjectively described.
Research Procedure	1. Identification and interpretation of selected critical incidents that occurred in class. 2. Topic concerns of pre-service teachers and shifts in concerns across the teaching practice period. 3. Self-evaluation: successes and failures rate at different stages. 4. Trainees’ final evaluation of themselves: strong and weak points.
Result / Findings	The results of this project demonstrated that focused diary writing, if well-structured, can motivate trainee-teachers to develop an active approach to their teaching and deepen their classroom awareness and teacher presence. Experience shows that diary writing needs to be closely monitored by the supervisor and that regular feedback should be given at each stage, alongside school mentor’s feedback on the trainees’ performance in the classroom (Gabrys ´Barker 2012).
Conclusion	To conclude, it seems that diary writing should be included in teacher training programs and it should be employed at different stages of teacher development.
The amount of paragraphs	45 paragraphs
What makes you interested in this journal	I think researching on diary studies reflection would be interesting
Comment after reading	-
New Vocabularies found	-

Day 5 Friday Date : 12 Mei 2017
Time	10.05
First Title	Doing Qualitative Research: A Step-by-Step Guide for Undergraduate Students
Sources	From my lecture
Background	Doing a research project for bachelor thesis writing is both rewarding and challenging. It is the rewarding task because it entails academic merits (e.g., contributing knowledge to a particular field or area of study) and affords students an opportunity to tap into their intellectual capability.
Research question (s)	Hasn’t finished
Research Procedure	Hasn’t finished
Result / Findings	Hasn’t finished
Conclusion	Hasn’t finished
The amount of paragraphs	Amounts of much paragraphs in 35 pages.
What makes you interested in this journal	It could be my sources in doing qualitative research.
Comment after reading	-
New Vocabularies found	-

Day 6 Saturday Date : 13 Mei 2017
Time	21.24
First Title	Doing Qualitative Research: A Step-by-Step Guide for Undergraduate Students
Sources	From my lecture
Background	Doing a research project for bachelor thesis writing is both rewarding and challenging. It is the rewarding task because it entails academic merits (e.g., contributing knowledge to a particular field or area of study) and affords students an opportunity to tap into their intellectual capability.
Research question (s)	This project should be ethically undertaken in that it involves considerable time, energy, process, and effort. In doing so, students must have personal and professional commitment to thesis writing completion.
Research Procedure	-
Result / Findings	This article has presented a step-by-step guide to undertaking a qualitative research project for bachelor thesis writing, including (a) framing and positioning a research project topic; (b) formulating workable research questions and purpose statements; (c)writing up research rationale/background, context, operational definitions of key terms, and contributions/significance; (d) developing and presenting a literature review; (e) choosing and presenting research methodology; (f) managing, analyzing, and interpreting empirical data and reporting findings; and (h) drawing sound conclusions           and spelling out actionable recommendations and limitations of the study.
Conclusion	the article has briefly described how to write up the thesis abstract and acknowledgement section. It is also important to keep in mind that students need to take into account some important ethical issues when doing qualitative research with            human participants.
The amount of paragraphs	Amounts of much paragraphs in 35 pages.
What makes you interested in this journal	It could be my sources in doing qualitative research.
Comment after reading	Now I know to arrange the research.
New Vocabularies found	-