Qualitative Research in Applied Linguistics

Part I. Overview

1. An Introduction to Qualitative Research
Robert A. Croker

2. What Makes Research ‘Qualitative’?
Robert A. Croker

Part II. Qualitative Research Approaches

3. Narrative Inquiry
Garold Murray

4. Case Study
Michael Hood

5. Ethnography
Michael Hood

6. Action Research
Anne Burns

7. Mixed Methods
Anne Burns

Part III. Qualitative Data Collection Methods

8. Observation
Neil Cowie

9. Interviews
Keith Richards

10. Open-Response Items in Questionnaires
James Dean Brown

11. Introspective Techniques
Sandra Lee McKay

12. Discourse Analysis
Anne Lazaraton

Part IV. Practical Issues

13. Ethics and Trustworthiness
Sharon F. Rallis, Gretchen B. Rossman

14. Writing Up Your Research
Christine Pearson Casanave

Keywords: Education, Language Teaching, Applied Linguistics, Language and Literature