Meet Your Prospective Mentor: Dilafruz Sarimsakova!

Meet your mentor who is happy and ready to help you become a teacher-researcher!

Hello fellow teachers! My name is Dilafruz Sarimsakova. I received my bachelor’s degree in English language and Literature from Andijan State University, master’s degree in English language and Literature from Namangan State University. I am currently a Trainee Researcher of Namangan State University in English Methodology and a PhD Student of Namangan State University.

My ambitions: It is proved that there is not one single best method for everyone in all contexts and that no one’s teaching method is inherently superior to the others. Also, it is not always possible or appropriate to apply the same methodology to all learners, who have different objectives, environments and learning needs. Having experienced some different approaches in my teaching, having absolute confusion in my mind, I decided that I would need to do classroom-based research that would consider my students' needs and the problems that occurred with me in the classroom. But how to do exploratory action research was a problem. The project “NETRUZ” broadened my theoretical knowledge on how to conduct EAR to improve my teaching practices. Now I have developed my research questions and going to start exploring action research based on my research plan. As a future mentor, I am ready for sharing with my prospective mentees what I have learnt within this project.

Message to my mentees about the training:  Teachers never stop learning. We learn and practice today; we teach and instruct how to do it in practice tomorrow. You will broaden your theoretical knowledge at the same time you take action on the problems you have faced in your classroom.

My research interests that I would like to help my mentees with:  teaching methodology, classroom-based action research, how to ingrate LMS more effectively.