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Qualitative Approaches to Research Qualitative approaches to research on plurilingual education Enfocaments qualitatius per a la recerca en educació plurilingüe Enfoques cualitativos para la investigación en educación plurilingüe Editors / Editores / Editoras Emilee Moore, Melinda Dooly Published by Research-publishing.net, not-for-profit association Dublin, Ireland; Voillans, France, [email protected] © 2017 by Editors (collective work) © 2017 by Authors (individual work) Qualitative approaches to research on plurilingual education (English) Enfocaments qualitatius per a la recerca en educació plurilingüe (Catalan) Enfoques cualitativos para la investigación en educación plurilingüe (Spanish) Edited by Emilee Moore and Melinda Dooly Rights: This volume is published under the Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) licence; individual articles may have a different licence. 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Table of contents Índex de continguts Índice de contenidos vi Collaborators Col·laboradores i col·laboradors Colaboradoras y colaboradores xiv Prólogo xviii Prologue Amparo Tusón Valls 1 Introduction: qualitative approaches to research on plurilingual education 11 Introducció: enfocaments qualitatius per a la recerca en educació plurilingüe Melinda Dooly, Emilee Moore Section 1 - Secció 1 - Sección 1 23 Investigar con docentes 46 Doing research with teachers Luci Nussbaum 69 Investigar las propias prácticas docentes a través de la investigación-acción 88 Investigating one’s own teaching practices using action research Xavier Pascual 107 Producir conocimiento sobre el plurilingüismo junto a jóvenes estudiantes: un reto para la etnografía en colaboración 129 Producing knowledge about plurilingualism with young students: a challenge for collaborative ethnography Virginia Unamuno, Adriana Patiño iii Table of contents, Índex de continguts, Índice de contenidos 151 Un acercamiento etnográfico al estudio de las variedades lingüísticas de jóvenes latinoamericanos en Barcelona 170 An ethnographic approach to the study of linguistic varieties used by young Latin Americans in Barcelona Víctor Corona 189 A Mediated Discourse Analysis (MDA) approach to multimodal data 212 Una aproximació a dades multimodals amb l’anàlisi del discurs mediat Melinda Dooly 237 Educational ethnography in blended learning environments 264 Etnografia educativa en contextos d’aprenentatge mixt Victoria Antoniadou, Melinda Dooly 293 L’anàlisi de la conversa al servei de la recerca en el camp de l’adquisició de segones llengües (CA-for-SLA) 321 Conversation analysis at the service of research in the field of second language acquisition (CA-for-SLA) Dolors Masats Section 2 - Secció 2 - Sección 2 351 Research ethics 363 Ética de la investigación Melinda Dooly, Emilee Moore, Claudia Vallejo 377 Instruments per a la recollida de dades 390 Instruments for gathering data Laia Canals 403 Collecting, transcribing, analyzing and presenting plurilingual interactional data 418 Recoger, transcribir, analizar y presentar datos interaccionales plurilingües Emilee Moore, Júlia Llompart iv Table of contents, Índex de continguts, Índice de contenidos 435 Collecting, organizing and analyzing multimodal data sets: the contributions of CAQDAS 451 Recoger, organizar y analizar corpus de datos multimodales: las contribuciones de los CAQDAS Victoria Antoniadou 469 Com s’escriu un text de recerca? 483 How to write a research paper Eulàlia Borràs 497 Epíleg 501 Epilogue Artur Noguerol 505 Author index Índex d’autores i autors Índice de autoras y autores v Collaborators Col·laboradores i col·laboradors Colaboradoras y colaboradores Editors / Editores / Editoras Melinda Dooly holds a Serra Húnter fellowship as researcher and senior lecturer in the Department of Language, Literature and Social Science Education at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. She teaches English as a Foreign Language Methodology (TEFL) and research methods courses, focusing on telecollaboration in education at both undergraduate and graduate levels. She has taught on short-term stays in different countries worldwide, including an honorary lectureship at the Institute of Education University College London. Her principal research addresses technology-enhanced project-based language learning and 21st century competences in teacher education. She has published widely in international journals and authored chapters and books in this area of study. She is co-editor of the book series Telecollaboration in Education (Peter Lang). Her current research interest is in project-based telecollaborative language learning and very young learners. She currently leads the GREIP research group. Emilee Moore holds a Serra Húnter fellowship as researcher and lecturer in the Department of Language, Literature and Social Science Education at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. She was visiting postdoctoral researcher in the School of Education as part of the Beatriu Pinós program (Generalitat de Catalunya) and tutor in the School of Languages, Cultures and Societies at the University of Leeds from 2015 to 2017. Most of her teaching has contributed to the development of teachers for plurilingual preschool, primary, secondary and tertiary education. She studies meaning-making practices in multilingual and multicultural, formal and non-formal educational contexts, integrating approaches from linguistic ethnography, the study of interaction and sociocultural learning theories. She has participated in several large, Spanish, UK and European research projects, and a number of smaller teaching innovation and socio-educational projects and published widely in international journals and books. vi Collaborators, col·laboradores i col·laboradors, colaboradoras y colaboradores Authors / Autores i autors / Autoras y autores Victoria Antoniadou is a Ph.D. graduate from the Department of Language, Literature and Social Science Education at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Her research and publications focus on the use of telecollaboration in Initial Teacher Education and ethnographic methods for tracing teacher learning in multi- sited, multimodal learning environments. She is interested in the pedagogical uses of computer-mediated communication and the ways they can potentiate cross- border, collaborative and learning-laden interactions. She has participated in EU- funded projects. She has taught English as a foreign language to dentistry students at the Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, as well as methods for teaching English to young learners at the European University of Cyprus. She currently teaches English as a foreign language to young learners and adults in Cyprus, and provides interpreting and teaching coordination services to the University of Nicosia Medical School implementing the St. George’s Problem-Based Learning program. She also collaborates with healthcare organizations in Cyprus on the introduction of telecollaboration in patient-centered care. Eulàlia Borràs és doctora pel Departament de Didàctica de la Llengua i la Literatura, i de les Ciències Socials de la Universitat
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