Reflexive and Reflective Research Approaches in Applied Linguistics
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Reflexive and Reflective Research Approaches in Applied Linguistics moves the field of Applied Linguistics into new methodological territory. Applying both the newer reflexive methodologies of currere and duoethnography as well as the more established methodologies of autoethnography and narrative to the broad field of Applied Linguistics, international authors in the field examine the affordances, limitations, and ethical challenges and benefits of these methodologies to Applied Linguistics from multiple perspectives. A parallel structure in the book encourages the reader to critically compare and contrast the uses of these methodologies within Applied Linguistics.
[Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, 8] Expected June 2025. ix, 274 pp. + index
Publishing status: In production
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
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List of contributors | pp. vii–x
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Chapter 1. Reflectivity and reflexivity in qualitative research and scholarshipRichard D. Sawyer and Pejman Habibie | pp. 1–19
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Part I. Reflectivity and reflexivity in research
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Chapter 2. Transformative possibilities of autoethnographyWendy Bilgen | pp. 22–41
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Chapter 3. Duoethnography: A collaborative, organic self-study methodology for personal and societal reconceptualizationRichard D. Sawyer and Shain Wright | pp. 42–61
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Chapter 4. Toward an understanding of Currere as a research methodWanying Wang | pp. 62–81
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Chapter 5. Telling stories matters: An introduction to narrative inquiryAnnie R. Allen, Jeong-Hee Kim and Jeasik Cho | pp. 82–99
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Part II. Reflectivity and reflexivity and Applied Linguistics Research
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Chapter 6. Affordances and limitations of autoethnography as a research method in Applied LinguisticsAna Bocanegra-Valle | pp. 102–123
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Chapter 7. The role of duoethnography in critical ELT research: Reflexivity, ideology critique, and praxisRobert J. Lowe | pp. 124–143
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Chapter 8. Currere: A Research method to deconstruct previous experiences in Applied Linguistics ResearchMaria Garcia and Jessica Masterson | pp. 144–157
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Chapter 9. Narrative inquiry in Applied Linguistics Research: The pleasures and perilsHanako Okada | pp. 158–177
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Part III. Reflective and reflexive studies
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Chapter 10. An autoethnography of migration, language, and power dynamicsElli Nik | pp. 180–195
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Chapter 11. Duoethnographic inquiry into translingualism and language teacher identity: Challenges and opportunitiesZhe (Zoey) Zheng and Luke Lawrence | pp. 196–213
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Chapter 12. Past, present, and future: Examining the process of using Currere to develop critical pedagogy for language educatorsJing Tan and Xiali Chang | pp. 214–231
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Chapter 13. When children don’t learn to read: A narrative inquiry and an intervention studySandra Jack-Malik and Janet L. Kuhnke | pp. 232–254
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Coda
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Chapter 14. Contemporary Applied Linguistics Research: Between reflection and reflexivityMatthew T. Prior | pp. 256–274
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Author index | pp. 275–276
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Subject index | pp. 277–279
“Habibie and Sawyer have produced a timely collection of chapters that points to the power and relevance of reflexive research methods for applied linguistics. Offering a range of perspectives and applications, chapter authors delve into how narrative inquiry, autoethnographic, duoethnographic, and Currere theories and methods, which probe into researchers’ own life experiences, can lead to important insights regarding our cultural, ideological, social, aesthetic, and, of course, languaged worlds.”
Elizabeth R. Miller, UNC Charlotte
“Critically reflecting on qualitative research processes, and then reflecting on those reflections, from first-order reflexivity to second-order reflexivity, and back again, this stunning book gets us pondering the intricacies of how our lives as researchers and research participants are together experienced, felt, disrupted, and transformed. Very readable and informative chapters that describe and illustrate research methodologies in applied linguistics and language education are bookended by overviews of relevant concepts and summaries. If you are or want to be a qualitative researcher, you must read this book.”
Gary Barkhuizen, University of Auckland
Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CJ: Language teaching & learning (other than ELT)
Main BISAC Subject
LAN020000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Study & Teaching