Less Frequently Used Research Methodologies in Applied Linguistics

Less Frequently Used Research Methodologies in Applied Linguistics
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Title page
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Table of contents
Chapter 1 Introduction
	1. Introduction
	2. A synopsis of the chapters
	References
Chapter 2 The Multiperspectival Approach to Applied Linguistic research
	1. Introduction
	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
	References
Chapter 3 Implementing the Multiperspectival Approach (MPA)
	1. Introduction
	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
	References
Chapter 4 Multimodality
	1. Introduction
	2. Theoretical foundations
		2.1 Multimodality as a functionalist social semiotic inquiry
		2.2 Social semiotics and systemic functional multimodal discourse analysis (SF-MDA)
	3. Methodological orientation
		3.1 Principles and affordances
		3.2 Types of research questions addressed by social semiotics and SF-MDA
		3.3 Procedures of data collection and analysis
			3.3.1 Data collection
			3.3.2 Data analysis
		3.4 Research ethics
	4. Systemic-functional semiotics
	5. Conclusions
	References
Chapter 5 Applying multimodal analysis
	1. Introduction
	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
	5. Conclusions
	References
Chapter 6 Conversation analysis
	1. Introduction
	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
	References
	Appendix 1. Jeffersonian transcription conventions (based on Markee, 2015)
Chapter 7 Doing conversation analysis
	1. Introduction
	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
	6. Conclusions
	References
Chapter 8 Grounded Theory
	1. Introduction
	2. Theoretical foundations
		2.1 American pragmatism
		2.2 Symbolic interactionism
		2.3 Empirical sociology
		2.4 Emergence of the grounded theory methodology
	3. Methodological orientation
		3.1 Principles and affordances
		3.2 Types of research questions addressed by the GTM
		3.3 Procedures of data collection and analysis
		3.4 Ethical issues
	4. Critiques and responses
	5. Conclusions
	Funding
	References
Chapter 9 Applications of Grounded Theory in the field of Extensive Reading
	1. Introduction
	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
	6. Conclusions
	Funding
	References
Chapter 10 Phenomenology
	1. Introduction
	2. Theoretical foundations
	3. Methodological orientation
		3.1 Principles and affordances
		3.2 Types of research questions addressed
		3.3 Data collection and analysis procedure
		3.4 Ethical considerations
	4. Critiques and responses
	5. Conclusions
	References
Chapter 11 Phenomenology
	1. Introduction
	2. An overview of the study
	3. Why was phenomenology chosen, and how was it implemented?
	4. Challenges faced and how they were addressed
	5. Insights gained using phenomenology
	6. Conclusions
	References
Chapter 12 Narrative inquiry
	1. Introduction
	2. Theoretical foundations
	3. Methodological orientations
		3.1 Principles and affordances
		3.2 Types of RQs addressed by narrative inquiry
		3.3 Procedures of data collection and analysis
		3.4 Ethical issues
	4. Critiques and responses
	5. Conclusions
	Funding
	Acknowledgements
	References
Chapter 13 Narrative inquiry
	1. Introduction
	2. An overview of the study
	3. Why was narrative inquiry used?
	4. What challenges were faced?
	5. Insights gained
	6. Conclusions
	References
	Appendix. Transcription and abbreviations conventions
Chapter 14 Repertory grids
	1. Introduction
	2. Theoretical foundations
	3. Methodological orientation
		3.1 Principles and affordances
		3.2 Types of RQs addressed by repertory grid
		3.3 Procedures of data collection and analysis
		3.4 Ethical issues
	4. Critiques and responses
	5. Conclusions
	References
Chapter 15 Repertory grids
	1. Introduction
	2. An overview of the study
	3. Why was repertory grid technique used?
	4. What challenges were faced?
	5. Insights gained using repertory grid technique
	6. Conclusions
	References
Chapter 16 Challenges and contributions of less frequently used methodologies
	1. Introduction
	2. Challenges faced; insights gained
	3. Ethical issues
	4. Methodological contributions
	References
Index