NATIONAL RESEARCH AGENDA
(48 votes – highest priority)
1. We will gather what has already been done

1.1. From SLA/billing/ESL
1.2. Who did it? National/International, interdisciplinary
1.3. What questions have been answered?
1.4. Where do we find it? (link to dissemination forms)

2. We will examine what questions people have now.

2.1. Teachers: technology/instruction/curriculum/assessment
2.2. Administrators: technology/instruction/curriculum/assessment
2.3. Government
2.4. Industry
2.5. Post-secondary

3. We will prepare researchers to address issues

3.1. Web pages of "how-to"
3.2. Conference workshops
3.3. Consultants
3.4. Mentors
3.5. Collaboration

4. We will suggest characteristics to recognize (but not endorse) the widest variety of research paradigms and contributions

4.1. Action´theory

5. We will identify

5.1. Past, current, and future funding sources
5.2. What has been funded?
5.3. Initiatives underway?
5.4. What could be funded?
5.5. As linked to:
5.6. Government
5.7. Philanthropic organizations
5.8. Industry

6. We will communicate the results to decision-makers and consumers

7. We will provide incentives, breakdown barriers, and find resources, accessing the tools of research, thereby examining how major new developments affect the Foreign Language fields in ways related to initiatives, trends, and legislation

8. We will evaluate and assess research efforts

Janis Antonek, Helga Ebersberger Williams, Fred Genesee, Carol E. Klein, Joy Renjilian-Burgy, Ali Borjian, Marjorie Hall Haley, Heidi Byrnes, Brian Whalen, Rebecca Oxford, Thomas Parry, Lee Wiberschied

EXPANDED VISION OF RESEARCH
(43 votes – 2nd highest priority)

1. We will develop pre- and in-service training for all pre-K-16+ professionals in evaluating, conducting, implementing and reflecting on research

1.1. Summer Institutes
1.2. On-line training
1.3. Methods and graduate courses (perhaps in other disciplines)

2. We will encourage collaborative research within and outside the profession Peer-to-peer networks

2.1. Mentor to mentored networks
2.2. Team studies
2.3. Collaboration with administrators, people from other fields, levels

3. We will solicit research questions from all stakeholders, including public, pre K-12, literature, culture, and students and parents

3.1. Surveys
3.2. Focus groups
3.3. Web sites
3.4. Individuals

4. We will acknowledge and promote the value of a variety of research paradigms and approaches, each evaluated on the basis of appropriate criteria, i.e., quantitative, qualitative, and action-based.

4.1. Provide venues for discussions and/or dissemination of findings at varying levels and degrees of formality to ensure a "safe have" for everyonbr
4.2. Offer sessions and summer institutes
4.3. Use models from other disciplines
4.4. Influence the reward system, i.e., tenure, certification, salary, awards
4.5. Ensure that all journal editorial boards include members trained in a variety of research methods

• Foreign Language Annals/Emily Spinelli

Foreign Language Annals/Emily Spinelli, Theresa Austin, Sharon Wilkinson, Becky Kline (NECTFL), Judith Shrum, Brian Whalen, Galal Walker

Theresa Austin, Sharon Wilkinson, Becky Kline (NECTFL), Wade Kniseley, Brian Whalen

Becky Kline (NECTFL), Lynn Sandstedt

Suwako Watanabe, Theresa Austin, Lee Wilberschied, Susan Colville-Hall, Judith Shrum, Jocelyn Raught, Becky Kline (NECTFL)

NATIONAL CLEARINGHOUSE FOR FOREIGN LANGUAGE RESEARCH
(36 votes – 3rd highest priority)

1. We will develop searchable dataset of research materials to:

1.1. Support and expand ERIC
1.2. Link to NFLRCs, CAL, NFLC, ACTFL, AATs, MLS, DLI, state/regional/international organizations, university research centers, lab schools, education departments, JNCL, Foreign Language collaboratives, AAAL, LLBA, etc., to obtain materials on research results (including ESL, bilingual, etc.)
1.3. Ensure that dataset is easy to use, access, submit to, by providing user-friendly interface (abstracts, reviews, soundbites, videoclips, etc.)

2 We will encourage use of dataset inside and outside the profession to:

2.1. Link to organizations listed above
2.2. Link to corporate, governmental, and community agencies
2.3. Regularly publicize via journals, Web sites, newsletters, listserves for greater visibility and use

 

3. We will survey available research to determine gaps (to guide formation of the national research agenda)

4. We will identify active researchers to:

4.1. Establish a network of mentors for action research
4.2. Attract and guide new researchers from pre-K-16+

• Resources and organizations already exist

• ERIC and other listed organizations using amazon.com as a model

• Foreign Language
  collaborative team

   

• ERIC and other organizations
  

• Foreign Language organizations

Year 1

Year 1

Year 3

Year 2

Year 2

Ongoing

Scott McGinnis, Cynthia Ning, Helene Zimmer-Loew, DLI Research Office (Contact: Ray Clifford), Mary Ann Lyman-Hager, Cindy Kendall, ERIC and organizations listed

ERIC and organizations listed

ERIC and organizations listed

Foreign Language collaborative teach, Tom Hayes

ERIC and other organizations
Foreign Language organizations
Susan Colville-Hall

Foreign Language Annals/Emily Spinelli,
Lynn Sandstedt

Foreign Language Annals/Emily Spinelli

Marjorie Hall Haley

Brian Whalen (4-8), Becky Kline (NECTFL)

Tom Hayes

Suwako Watanabe

Becky Kline (NECTFL)

IMPROVING DISSEMINATION AND ACCESS
(29 votes – tied for lowest priority)

1. We will create a community of inquiry

1.1. Create "safe" mechanism for teachers to ask and answer research questions
1.2. Make research issues a prominent component of Foreign language organizations’ publications and Web sites, etc.
1.3. Provide mechanism for researchers to connect with possible classroom collaborators or sites for research.

2. We will disseminate research results to wider audiences (outside profession)

2.1. Take our research findings to the mass media
2.2. Consolidate Foreign Language research for specific purposes and audiences (e.g., administrators, school boards, PTA, provosts, deans, special education)
2.3. Explore corporate interest in disseminating applicable research results

3. We will make research accessible to Foreign Language educators at all levels

3.1. Designate "translators" to bridge gap between researchers and practitioners
3.2. Scan research literature for relevance to instructional decision making
3.3. Summarize or abstract in user-friendly terms
3.4. Make this user-friendly research available to wide range of organizations, journals, other publications, and practitioners

4. We will integrate research into professional development

4.1. Make conducting and using research a component of teacher education as both a pre-service and inservice manner.
4.2. Urge all Foreign Language conferences to demonstrate commitment to research component in presentations
4.3. Provide assistance to teachers to write about their research (e.g., to meet standards of NBPTS)

• Existing and developing technology (Web sites, etc),
  
• Newsletters
  
• Journals
  
• Conferences

• PR people
  
• College Students

• Re-assign staff in existing Foreign Language organizations
  
• Use volunteer retired teachers
  
• Use graduate students with writing expertise and experience in schools
  
• Current Foreign Language Organizations

• NCATE & INTASC (in preparation)
  
• Template for additions to conference proposals and evaluation forms
  
• NBPTS standards
  
• State Depts of Ed.
  
• State regional organizations
  
• AATs

2000-2004

Start in 2000

Start when guidelines are ready

Now

Start 2001

Becky Kline (NECTFL), Susan Colville-Hall, Deborah Parks, Susan Schmidt (AATJ), Lee Wilberschied, Suwako Watanabe, Tom Hayes, Theresa Austin, Fred Genesee, Sonja Hokanson, Janis Antonek, Eileen Glisan, Brian Whalen, Linda Wallinger, Duarte Silva, Galal Walker, Rebecca Oxford, Mary Ann Lyman-Hager, Helga Ebersberger-Williams

Brian Whalen, Linda Wallinger, Becky Kline (NECTFL)

Becky Kline (NECTFL), Rebecca Oxford, Nancy Rhodes, Suwako Watanabe

Becky Kline (NECTFL), Lynn Sandstedt

Marjorie Hall Haley, Susan Schmidt, Theresa Austin
Conference Organizers, Becky Kline (NECTFL), MaFLA

Becky Kline (NECTFL)