1. Research Methods Qualitative Paradigm
April 13, 2018
Dr. Paula Charbonneau-Gowdy

3. One way to view the world ..

4. And a qualitative(ly) different view…

5. In terms of language learning it means ...
Seeking an in-depth understanding of a phenomenon
Locating the teacher/researcher in the research context (emic position)

6. Connecting participants to contexts, both past and present, political and ideological…
Making the research context more visible for others…

7. Using various tools to represent…..
Case studies Personal experience Introspection Interviews
Artifacts
Cultural texts
Observational, historical interactional and visual texts

8. Tools that are used to describe routine and problematic moments and meanings in natural settings in the individuals’ LL lives…

9. Believing that
Reality can never be fully aprehended only approximated That these tools will help to capture a closer view of participants’ perspectives That we need to see the LL world in action not at some specific moment in time And that these tools will provide a rich description of the social world

10. In order to change that world…..

11. Qualitative EFL researchers now struggle to connect their research to the hopes and needs, goals and promises of a free 21st century democratice society….

12. It is by casting a light on the constructed nature of what is held as normative that one can find the interices [the openings] that enable critical inquiry. (Norton, 2015)