Going forward, the action research will continue. Although I will not be teaching with either one of the teachers from this project due to scheduling and other school related conflicts, I will continue to implement the techniques used with the experimental group. Ideally, the continued research would be more successful if I could teach with the same classroom teacher using what we know from the previous year, supplementing as indicated from the year-end results, and utilizing the new information we would receive from the pre-instruction writing sample gathered in the fall. In the future, I would also like to use two groups that are similar in English proficiency levels if at all possible to eliminate any unfair advantages. My plan is to
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continue the research project so that I am always aware of the needs of my students as well as recent research-based strategies in writing to implement with my ESL students