Abstract
At a roundtable discussion on the last day of the 2006 EuroCALL Conference, Diana Laurillard expressed the view that the best chance the CALL/CMCL community had of influencing the future was to ensure that it took every opportunity to clarify and know what learners need, acquiring and disseminating this knowledge. This, according to Laurillard, the CALL/CMCL community could achieve through the sheer strength of its practitioner research potential. We agree, as did many in the conference audience. This section defines practitioner research, drawing out its two main strands: action research and exploratory practice.
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Ā© 2007 Marie-NoĆ«lle Lamy and Regine Hampel
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Lamy, MN., Hampel, R. (2007). An Overview of Practitioner Research. In: Online Communication in Language Learning and Teaching. Research and Practice in Applied Linguistics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230592681_15
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