“…For Richard & Farrell (as cited in İlin, Kutlu, & Kutluay, 2013), action research can be a powerful way for language teachers to investigate their own practice. More specifically, it can be defined as; a systematic data collection and analysis made by a manager, teacher, education expert at a school, or from other associations … in order to understand and solve a current problem or the problems that may arise during the process (Yildirim and Simsek in Ekizoglu & Ekizoglu, 2011). It is a taking a self-reflective, critical and systematic approach to exploring your own teaching contexts' and it seeks both to better understand and improve an aspect of teaching and learning (Edwards & Burns, 2016).…”