Less Frequently Used Research Methodologies in Applied Linguistics.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Riazi, A. Mehdi.

Series:

Research Methods in Applied Linguistics Series

Research Methods in Applied Linguistics Series ; v.6

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Applied linguistics--Research--Methodology.

Applied linguistics.

Genre:

Essays.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (282 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2024.

Summary:

The volume contributes to the current methodological discussion in AL and provides early-career and seasoned researchers with the necessary discussion about these methodological orientations.

Contents:

Intro

Less Frequently Used Research Methodologies in Applied Linguistics

Editorial page

Title page

Copyright page

Table of contents

Chapter 1 Introduction

1. Introduction

2. A synopsis of the chapters

References

Chapter 2 The Multiperspectival Approach to Applied Linguistic research

2. Theoretical foundations

3. Methodological orientation

3.1 Principles and affordances

3.1.1 The researcher's perspective

3.1.2 Participants' perspective

3.1.3 Textual perspective

3.1.4 The social action perspective

3.1.5 The socio-historical perspective

3.2 Types of research questions addressed by MPA

3.3 Procedures of data collection and analysis

3.4 Ethical issues

4. Critiques and responses

5. Conclusions

Chapter 3 Implementing the Multiperspectival Approach (MPA)

2. An overview of the study

3. Why was MPA used?

4. How was the MPA implemented?

5. What were the challenges of MPA, how were they addressed, and what insights emerged?

6. Conclusions

Chapter 4 Multimodality

2.1 Multimodality as a functionalist social semiotic inquiry

2.2 Social semiotics and systemic functional multimodal discourse analysis (SF-MDA)

3.2 Types of research questions addressed by social semiotics and SF-MDA

3.3.1 Data collection

3.3.2 Data analysis

3.4 Research ethics

4. Systemic-functional semiotics

Chapter 5 Applying multimodal analysis

2. An overview of the research focus and the case studies

2.1 Embodied teaching

2.2 Language textbook analysis

3. Why multimodal analysis?.

3.1 Multimodality in embodied teaching

3.2 Multimodality in analyzing language textbooks

4. Implementing the studies using multimodal analysis

4.1 Case study 1

4.2 Case study 2

Chapter 6 Conversation analysis

2. The ontological and epistemological foundations of ethnomethodology and CA

2.1 Ethnomethodology

2.2 Conversation analysis (CA)

2.2.1 Context in CA

3. An overview of how conversation analysts set about doing emic research

3.1 What types of research questions do conversation analysts address, and how do we generate them?

3.2 Procedures of data collection, transcription, and analysis

4. The formal structure of talk

4.1 Turn-taking

4.2 Repair

4.3 Sequence organization

4.4 Preference

5. Transcription conventions

5.1 Jeffersonian transcription conventions

5.2 Multimodal transcription

5.2.1 Analysis

6. Critiques and responses

6.1 Moerman's contextual critique of conversation analysis

6.2 The epistemics debate

6.3 The Schegloff/Wetherell/Billig debates

7. Ethical issues

8. Conclusions

Appendix 1. Jeffersonian transcription conventions (based on Markee, 2015)

Chapter 7 Doing conversation analysis

2. An overview of the present study

2.1 Communication strategies

2.2 Learning behavior tracking

2.3 Participants

2.4 Data and analysis

2.4.1 Analysis

3. Why was Conversation Analysis (CA) used? And how was it implemented?

4. What challenges did the researchers face? How were the challenges addressed?

5. Insights gained using the conversation analysis

Chapter 8 Grounded Theory

2.1 American pragmatism

2.2 Symbolic interactionism

2.3 Empirical sociology.

2.4 Emergence of the grounded theory methodology

3.2 Types of research questions addressed by the GTM

Funding

Chapter 9 Applications of Grounded Theory in the field of Extensive Reading

2. Overview of the study

3. Why was the GTM used? How was it implemented?

3.1 Initial venue

3.2 Research participants

3.3 Research procedures in the field

4. What challenges were faced? How were the challenges addressed?

5. Insights gained using the grounded theory method

5.1 Infograzing

5.2 Bookmining

5.3 Storyhunting

Chapter 10 Phenomenology

3.2 Types of research questions addressed

3.3 Data collection and analysis procedure

3.4 Ethical considerations

Chapter 11 Phenomenology

3. Why was phenomenology chosen, and how was it implemented?

4. Challenges faced and how they were addressed

5. Insights gained using phenomenology

Chapter 12 Narrative inquiry

3. Methodological orientations

3.2 Types of RQs addressed by narrative inquiry

Acknowledgements

Chapter 13 Narrative inquiry

2. An overview of the study.

3. Why was narrative inquiry used?

4. What challenges were faced?

5. Insights gained

Appendix. Transcription and abbreviations conventions

Chapter 14 Repertory grids

3.2 Types of RQs addressed by repertory grid

Chapter 15 Repertory grids

3. Why was repertory grid technique used?

5. Insights gained using repertory grid technique

Chapter 16 Challenges and contributions of less frequently used methodologies

2. Challenges faced

insights gained

3. Ethical issues

4. Methodological contributions

Index.

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Other Format:

Print version: Riazi, A. Mehdi Less Frequently Used Research Methodologies in Applied Linguistics

ISBN:

9789027249210

9027249210

OCLC:

1409593016