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Purpose, Rationale, and Hypothesis: Publicado Por José Augusto Lugoen

The document discusses an action research study that aims to increase student autonomy awareness through an inquiry-based learning unit on human body systems. The study seeks to make students more aware of learning goals and materials, encourage more student inquiry, and help students identify preferred learning styles. It is expected that students will demonstrate increased autonomy awareness, inquiry, and understanding of how to develop knowledge. The study also aims to help teachers reflect on including more inquiry-based activities.

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Purpose, Rationale, and Hypothesis: Publicado Por José Augusto Lugoen

The document discusses an action research study that aims to increase student autonomy awareness through an inquiry-based learning unit on human body systems. The study seeks to make students more aware of learning goals and materials, encourage more student inquiry, and help students identify preferred learning styles. It is expected that students will demonstrate increased autonomy awareness, inquiry, and understanding of how to develop knowledge. The study also aims to help teachers reflect on including more inquiry-based activities.

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Purpose, rationale, and hypothesis

The main purpose of this action research study is to show an increase in the level of autonomy awareness
of a group of fourth-grade students by means of implementing an inquiry-based learning unit about the
systems of the human body in the current science program. Some specific objectives of the study include
making learners more aware of their learning goals and the content of the science materials that they
use by means of a student-centered methodology rather than a teacher-centered one; getting students
to inquire more than they are used to about science topics and making learners more aware of their own
preferred learning styles.

My intention with this action research project is to contribute to the field of teaching and learning
science in English, since this study will shed light about important issues related to how the level of
autonomy awareness can be increased by means of applying an inquiry-based learning approach to
science rather than a traditional teacher-centered methodology. What is expected from this action
research project is that students demonstrate an increased level of their autonomy awareness by
showing more awareness of their learning goals and the content of the science materials that they use
(Nunan, 1997); by fostering inquiry, which implies involvement in activities that lead to understanding,
since involvement in learning implies developing skills and attitudes that permit students to seek
resolutions to questions and issues while they construct new knowledge (Exline, 2008); and by being able
to identify better their own preferred learning styles.

The implementation of an inquiry-based learning unit full of inquiry activities related to the systems of
the human body will give students the opportunity to ask more questions, to discover scientific
knowledge themselves, and to communicate more with other peers and the teacher, thus increasing
their autonomy awareness (Sheerin, 1997) as well as developing their thinking skills while learning
science in their second language within a student-centered classroom atmosphere.

This study is relevant for the students, because it will help them improve in terms of learner autonomy.
Learning to be autonomous is one of the most important objectives students must accomplish nowadays
because the development of this skill makes them able to make decisions in an independent way after
analyzing many possibilities, and because it is very helpful for students to be successful in any project or
task they have to face in their daily lives (Luke, 2006).

This action research project is also pertinent for the educational institution for which I work, because it
will lead teachers of the science department to reflect on the importance of including inquiry-based
science activities in the units of the current science program to help students become more autonomous
while developing critical thinking skills.
Students who use inquiry to learn science engage in many of the same activities and thinking processes
as scientists who are seeking to expand human knowledge of the natural world. The activities and
thinking processes used by scientists will become more familiar to the educators seeking to introduce
inquiry into their science classrooms. Both students and teachers will be able to use inquiry to learn how
to do science, learn about the nature of science, and learn science content (Olson, 2000).

Publicado por José Augusto Lugoen 10:06

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