Reflexive and Reflective Research Approaches in Applied Linguistics

“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.”

“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.”