Looks like the funding for this study may be there, and TAMU has just approved it, so I’m reposting this. Julia needs just one more volunteer to get this into action. We already have precious few such studies on non-targeted so please if you are willing, contact her:
Julia Lynch is a researcher at the College of Education and Human Development at Texas A&M University who is also a member of our PLC.
Julia will be conducting a research study this year exploring teachers’ perceptions and sentiments about using non-targeted comprehensible input. We want to keep the study “in house” here on the PLC for obvious reasons: ease of communication, gathering information, absence of trolls, privacy, etc.
In order to do the study, Julia would need to submit a proposal to the A&M Internal Review Board and request consent forms from each participant. We are looking for five teachers who, like Beth, will be experiencing this transition this year.
The concept to be investigated is simple: How do teachers feel when they move to non-targeted comprehensible input instruction? What are any new perceptions, enlightenment they have? What is their level of enjoyment and satisfaction? That sort of thing. Julia is thinking that such a study can fit into the teacher retention discourse in terms of significance.
Julia will be publishing information here soon to get the project going. Those interested in being a part of the study need only be starting this year or have started doing NTCI in the past few years, having embraced the Natural Approach to Stories and/or the Natural Approach to the Year books.
If you choose to come on board with this study, we would both appreciate it. It could be good on a lot of levels. More later.