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HomeExploring Experience in Qualitative Research: A Focus on Narrative Inquiry
Saturday, January 24th, 2026, 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Speaker: Gary Barkhuizen (University of Auckland, New Zealand)
Distinguished Lecturer Series: www.tuj.ac.jp/grad-ed/events/2026/01/24/a-focus-on-narrative-inquiry
This seminar introduces participants to narrative inquiry as a powerful form of qualitative research in the field of language teaching and learning. Narrative inquiry is based on the idea that human experience is best understood through the stories people tell about their lives, practices, and identities. In applied linguistics, this approach has gained increasing recognition for its ability to capture the complex, lived realities of teachers and learners across diverse contexts.
The seminar will draw on authentic data from research on teacher identity, teacher education, multilingualism, and study-abroad to showcase how narratives open up understandings of language education from the perspectives of research participants. The seminar will explore and illustrate various qualitative and narrative methods, such as thematic analysis, writing as analysis, short story analysis, and narrative frames, to discover what they have in common, how they are different, and how we can choose what is most appropriate for our research. Graduate students and other researchers of all levels of experience will benefit from attending this seminar by gaining a clear sense of how narrative and qualitative research is designed, conducted, and analyzed--and also reported. Ultimately, this seminar will invite participants to see language teaching and learning as a lived, storied, and shared experience, one that can be studied in deeply meaningful, reflexive, and human ways.
Organization: Temple University, Japan Campus: the Graduate College of Education (Temple University, Japan Campus)
Cost: free
Venue: Online
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