Qualitative Research in Applied Linguistics: A Practical Introduction

✍ Scribed by Juanita Heigham, Robert A. Croker (eds.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 339
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Written in a clear, informal style for graduate students and practicing teachers embarking on their first qualitative research study in applied linguistics, leading authors introduce the principal research approaches and data creation methods to offer novice researchers an easy-to-follow and straightforward guide to qualitative inquiry.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
An Introduction to Qualitative Research....Pages 3-24
What Makes Research ‘Qualitative’?....Pages 25-41
Front Matter....Pages 43-43
Narrative Inquiry....Pages 45-65
Case Study....Pages 66-90
Ethnography....Pages 91-111
Action Research....Pages 112-134
Mixed Methods....Pages 135-161
Front Matter....Pages 163-163
Observation....Pages 165-181
Interviews....Pages 182-199
Open-Response Items in Questionnaires....Pages 200-219
Introspective Techniques....Pages 220-241
Discourse Analysis....Pages 242-259
Front Matter....Pages 261-261
Ethics and Trustworthiness....Pages 263-287
Writing Up Your Research....Pages 288-305
Back Matter....Pages 306-329

✦ Subjects

Language Teaching; Applied Linguistics; Language and Literature