Planning a Three-Year Research Based on the Community of Inquiry Theory

Abstract

This research project aims to take advantage of five annual English as a Second Language (ESL) courses, in two faculties of Sapienza University of Rome, during a three-year period. These courses, embedded in the timeline of the regular academic semesters, are the teaching/learning environments in which the researcher himself works as a language teacher and tutor. Therefore, they will be the ground for this blended education plan complemented by e-learning through CIT ecosystems. The research plan takes shape within the community of inquiry framework (CoI), and this theory encompasses the conceptual boundaries.