The last data collection instrument

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November 10

The university is open again. There are only eleven deaf students in class. It seems that the others have a lot of academic work because the semester is finishing and they decided not coming to class.
Today, I applied another data collection instrument: the formal interview. It gave students the opportunity to express their insights and opinions about the English course. This semi- structured interview was designed in Spanish to facilitate the interpreter's comprehension and translation. In addition, it was flexible enough to enable students to talk freely about the aspects they considered relevant. It allowed for " the emergence of themes and topics which may have not been anticipated when the investigation began ". (Burns, 1999, p. 120)
In general, most students were very collaborative and their comments were interesting and useful to improve not only the research project but also the teaching process.

Reference
Burns, A. ( 1999) Collaborative Action Research for English Language Teachers.CUP.