Archiving Self-Access : Methodological considerations

• Adamson, John Lindsay

• Brown, Howard

• Fujimoto-Adamson, Naoki

抄録

This study has illustrated how a long-term ethnographic approach of archiving data and profiling its key participants represents an effective means of revealing perceptions of a new Self-Access Learning Center (SALC) within a university in Japan. This on-going process of conducting qualitative interviews and conversational narratives with center staff, accompanied by student questionnaires, has required methodological reduction of the large amount of ensuing data. Such a process is achieved by a combination of crystallization of themes emerging from dialogues, and analysis of questionnaire data from various perspectives. This methodology reflects the researchers' wishes to investigate the self-access center where they work in a manner more locally situated, co-constructive and, importantly, in one which accords voice and agency to peripheral SALC stakeholders. As a study for the purpose of the continuous improvement of practice, the triangulated methodology employed to gather and analyze data can be adopted by other self-access centers seeking a rich, diverse body of evidence and an analytical framework to respond to the pedagogical and institutional environment where they operate.

収録刊行物

• Asian EFL Journal

  Asian EFL Journal 13 (2), 11-33, 2011

  Asian EFL Journal Press

キーワード

• Self-Access Learning
• Methodology
• Ethnography
• Archive

詳細情報

• CRID: 1050564287990288000
• NII論文ID: 120006584570
• ISSN: 17381460
• Web Site: https://unii.repo.nii.ac.jp/records/200
• 本文言語コード: en
• 資料種別: journal article
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