[Webinar] Revisiting Narrative Analysis in Language Education Research

Link to the Zoom meeting: https://hsuhk.zoom.us/j/94222893023

(Meeting ID: 942 2289 3023; Password: dRBt4P)

Narrative inquiry is now a well-established methodological approach in applied linguistics, especially within the domain of language learning and teaching. As a result, a growing body of literature has specifically addressed epistemological and methodological issues related to narrative perspectives in the field (e.g., Barkhuizen, 2013; Bell, 2002, 2011; Benson, 2018). In this talk, I will extend the epistemological and methodological debates which have characterised narrative inquiry in language education over the past decade. In particular, I will put the spotlight on a specific method, narrative analysis, i.e., the process of writing stories as an approach to data analysis and representation of research findings. To do so, I will unpack my experience of doing narrative analysis through MAXQDA, a Computer Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis (CAQDAS) Software which may help researchers manage a large dataset. Crucially, the use of…