Qualitative Inquiry in TESOL

✍ Scribed by Keith Richards (auth.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 348
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Graduate and professional TESOL students will welcome this research methods textbook for undertaking qualitative, naturalistic and action research projects. Uniquely, the book offers a three-level structured progression, suited both to novice and intermediate students with a focus on development as classroom teachers of English, and to advanced students engaged in academic research work in applied linguistics. Every chapter is structured to develop the important skills for undertaking QI in a rigorous and serious way, at whatever level is appropriate for the reader's purpose. The book is both scholarly in approach and written in an engagingly direct and clear style.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxv
The Nature of Qualitative Inquiry....Pages 1-46
Interviewing....Pages 47-103
Observation....Pages 104-171
Collecting and Analysing Spoken Interaction....Pages 172-230
Planning a Project....Pages 231-262
Analysis and Representation....Pages 263-296
Epilogue: Qualitative Inquiry and Teaching....Pages 297-299
Back Matter....Pages 301-323

✦ Subjects

Language Education; Linguistics, general; Language Teaching