1 Researching Young Language Learners in School Contexts: Setting the Scene

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Contributors vii
4. 1 Researching Young Language Learners in School Contexts: Setting the Scene 1
5. Part 1 Encouraging Children to Play Active Roles
6. 2 Researching with Children as an Opportunity for Active and Interactive Learning: Lessons from a Digital Game Design Project 27
7. 3 Constructing Joint Understandings of Research with Children 48
8. 4 ‘Are you coming back? It was fun’: Turning Ethical and Methodological Challenges into Opportunities in Taskbased Research with Children 68
9. Part 2 Research with Children in Multilingual Contexts
10. 5 Social Justice and Questions of Marginalization in Research with Linguistically Diverse Children 87
11. 6 Reframing Expertise: Learning with and from Children as Co-investigators of their Plurilingual Practices and Experiences 106
12. 7 Artefactual Narratives of Multilingual Identity: Methodological and Ethical Considerations in Researching Children 126
13. 8 ‘I don’t want to talk any more’: Refl ecting on Research into Young Children’s Perspectives on their Multilingual Lives 147
14. 9 Navigating Cultural and Methodological Complexities in Research with Children in a Sub- Saharan African Context 165
15. Part 3 Teacher Education and Research with Children
16. 10 Teachers’ Image of the Child in an ELT Context 185
17. 11 Children and Teachers as Co-researchers in Indian Classrooms: Some Ethical Issues 206
18. 12 The Ethical Practices of Collecting Informed Consent from Child Participants in Action Research Projects 223
19. 13 Revisiting and Expanding Opportunities for Participatory Research with Young Learners in School Contexts 243
20. Index 254