Abstract
Educational research has previously been regarded as activity undertaken by both teaching and research members of tertiary institutions. Frontline schoolteachers, rarely conducting research on their own, usually take up the role of an assistan t at most. However, the Hong Kong Institute of Education has made it a requirement for participants of the Putonghua teachers In-service Training Course to conduct action research. The objectives of this article are threefold: (1) to survey course partici pants' views with regards to conducting action research; (2) to present a profile of the scopes of their action research for the reference of Putonghua teachers who are interested in conducting such research; and (3) to assess the relationship between act ion research and professional growth of Putonghua teachers.
| Keywords: | Putonghua teachers; action research; professional growth |
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