In:Innovative Qualitative Methodologies in Multilingual Literacy Development Research: Amplifying voices from immigrant, transnational, and refugee communities
Edited by Amanda K. Kibler and Fares J. Karam
[Research Methods in Applied Linguistics 11] 2025
► pp. 92–100
Chapter 5Commentary: The instability of ‘data’ in a postdigital era
Key challenges for qualitative multilingual researchers
Published online: 7 April 2025
https://doi.org/10.1075/rmal.11.05sto
https://doi.org/10.1075/rmal.11.05sto
Abstract
This commentary on Part 1 of Innovative Qualitative
Methodologies in Multilingual Literacy Development Research: Amplifying Voices from Immigrant, Transnational, and
Refugee Communities focuses upon some of the ways in which qualitative literacy researchers have begun to
rethink data. Complex ethical and conceptual challenges that arise in multilingual literacy research in a postdigital
era are contextualized in the work of the three chapters in Part 1 before
directions for future research are offered.
Keywords: qualitative, literacy, multilingual, methodology, data
Article outline
- Introduction
- The challenge of data on the move: Methods for moving with
- The challenge of what counts as data: Methods to expand data
- The challenge of representation: Methods for making visible
- Moving forward: Centering ethics and equity in working with data
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