A handbook for Exploratory Action Research

the audio topics?
very interesting
interesting
not interesting 
enough
not interesting
at all
26
28
14
8
2. Which activities do you 
like best?
songs
activities from the course book
films
48
1
27
3. How clear are the 
teacher’s instructions?
very clear
clear
clear enough
not clear at all
35
31
10
0
Summary / Interpretation of findings:

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| What do I find?
By utilising a table like the one on the previous page, you can see where the highest responses are. This can 
become even clearer if you create a chart. Below, for example, we have created a chart for each of her questions. 
By looking at each chart, you are able to see more easily 
the strongest preferences or ‘peaks’ (like mountains) and 
these enable the ‘So what?’ question to be answered. In 
Lorena’s case, she was able to notice that her students’ 
views regarding listening tasks were positive. This was not 
what she had expected and she felt she still did not know 
why students’ participation was low during listening tasks. 
She therefore decided to analyse the findings from focus 
group discussions to gain further understanding.
Bar chart
Line chart
Pie chart
What do you think about the audio topics?
30
25
20
15
10
5
0
very interesting
interesting
not interesting 
enough
not interesting
at all
How clear are the teacher’s instructions?
Which activities do you like best?
40
35
30
25
20
15
10
5
0
very clear
clear
clear enough
not clear at all
songs
coursebook activities
films