Research In English: Why Don't Teachers Use the Findings of Research in English?

10-second review: There is no clear connection to practice.

Title: "In the Press to Scale Up, What is at Risk"" A McGill-Franzen. Reading Research Quarterly (July/ August/ September 2005), 366 - 369.

Quote: "...as Reinking and Bradley (2004) noted, inductive, naturalistic research is as likely to be ignored by educators as is experimental research, unless there is a clear connection to practice. According to these researchers, a methodological gap exists between naturalistic and experimental research on the one hand, and research that improves instruction on the other hand."

Comment: Stands to reason. The teacher's purpose in reading research is to find out what works. Another problem is research that is unreadable. RayS.