Teacher research during an international practicum

Teacher research allows teachers to learn about their teaching and connect theory to practice through systematic self-study. This report examines eight US-based graduate students' research projects while they were teaching EAP during a practicum in Thailand. Findings indicate that their projects took different forms, from action research to introspective analysis, which reflected the teacher-researchers' emerging understandings of their instructional context and perspectives as teachers and researchers. This article presents profiles of three teacher-researchers' studies to illustrate the varied forms and outcomes of their studies. Their study designs reflect the teachers' choices of methods in response to contextual and personal factors.