Identity Formation and Collaboration Inquiry in the Zone of Proximal Development: Eighth Grade ESL Students Doing Research - A Teacher Research Study

Abstract

This study is an ethnographic investigation of a Grade Eight ESL IV class conducting research with topics of their own choosing from October, 2001 through May, 2002. This investigation is conceived as a qualitative teacher-research study: an ethnographic examination of collaborative inquiry in the ESL classroom setting where the majority of the students are Brazilian