Narrative Inquiry in Language Teaching and Learning Research, Second Edition

✍ Scribed by Gary Barkhuizen, Phil Benson, Alice Chik

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2024
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 192
• Series: Second Language Acquisition Research Series
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Narrative Inquiry in Language Teaching and Learning Research is the only entry-level introduction to research methods using stories, either as data or as a means of presenting findings, and a practical guide for those interested in carrying out narrative studies.

This successful text is grounded in published empirical research within the field of language teaching and learning and clearly defines basic concepts in narrative inquiry, explaining how and why narrative methods have been used in language teaching and learning research and outlining different choices and approaches. It also examines the different ways of eliciting, analyzing, and presenting narrative inquiry data, which offers exciting prospects for language teaching and learning research. This second edition has been fully revised and updated to reflect the latest research and includes new sections on multimodal digital narrative research and the reporting of findings in dissertations and theses.

This original and well-respected textbook is an ideal course book for specialist courses on narrative inquiry in language teaching and learning. It is an excellent entry-level text for undergraduate students preparing honours projects, postgraduate masters’ and doctoral students embarking on narrative projects, and more advanced researchers seeking to understand the role of narrative inquiry in language teaching and learning research. It is also the go-to choice as a reference on narrative in more general applied linguistics research methodology courses.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Endorsements
Half Title
Series
Title
Copyright
Contents
Introduction to the second edition
1 Narrative inquiry in applied linguistics
1.1 The narrative turn in the social sciences
1.2 What is narrative inquiry?
1.3 What are stories of language teaching and learning?
1.4 Narrative inquiry in language teaching and learning research
1.5 Ethics in narrative inquiry
1.6 Topics in narrative inquiry
1.7 Conclusion
2 Oral narratives
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Participants
2.3 Qualitative research interviewing for narrative inquiry
2.3.1 Semi-structured narrative interviews
2.3.2 Open narrative interview
2.3.3 Frequency and length of data collection
2.3.4 Data transcription
2.4 Ethical issues
2.5 Conclusion
3 Written narratives
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Contexts in which written narratives are constructed
3.2.1 Learner diaries
3.2.2 Language learning histories
3.2.3 Teacher narratives
3.2.4 Teacher and learner narrative frames
3.3 Ethical issues
3.4 Conclusion
4 Visual and multimodal narratives
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Contexts in which visual and multimodal narrative texts are used
4.3 Photographs as visual materials
4.4 Language learning portraits
4.5 Arts-based research practices
4.6 Timelines
4.7 Digital narratives
4.8 Digital narratives on social media platforms
4.9 Hosting multimodal language learning narratives
4.10 Potential problems and ethical issues
4.11 Conclusion
5 Data analysis in narrative inquiry
5.1 Introduction
5.1.1 Narrative inquiry and qualitative research
5.1.2 Narrative and non-narrative data
5.2 Analyzing narrative data: thematic analysis
5.2.1 Thematic analysis: single case studies
5.2.2 Thematic analysis: multiple case studies
5.3 Analyzing narrative discourse
5.3.1 Metaphors
5.3.2 Narrative structure
5.3.3 Positioning analysis
5.3.4 Self-authoring theory
5.4 Narrative writing
5.4.1 Biographical approaches
5.4.2 Autobiographical approaches
5.4.3 Collaborative approaches
5.4.4 Events and processes
5.5 Sociomaterial and spatial approaches
5.6 Findings in narrative inquiry
5.6.1 Rigour
5.6.2 Trustworthiness
5.6.3 Generalizability
6 Reporting narrative studies
6.1 Introduction
6.2 From data to research reports
6.2.1 The participant(s)
6.2.2 The researcher(s)
6.2.3 The audience
6.2.4 The purpose of the research
6.2.5 The research topic
6.2.6 The form of the report
6.3 Reporting thematic analysis
6.4 Reporting on narrative interaction
6.4.1 Analysis
6.5 Reporting in narrative form
6.5.1 Findings
6.6 Reporting crafted narratives
6.7 Reporting in dissertations and theses
6.8 Conclusion
References
Index