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Researching multilingually (RMTC) project Glasgow Symposium 26 May 2014 Prue Holmes (Durham University) Richard Fay (The University of Manchester) Jane Andrews (The University of the West of England) Mariam Attia (Durham University)

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Researching multilingually (RMTC) project

Glasgow Symposium26 May 2014

Prue Holmes (Durham University)Richard Fay (The University of Manchester)

Jane Andrews (The University of the West of England)Mariam Attia (Durham University)

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Overview

1.Background to AHRC-funded “Researching Multilingually” network project2.The role of the RMTC hub in the RM-at-borders project3.Methodology4.Getting started (Phase 1, Literature Review, June to October, 2014)5.How we plan to engage with the Case Study researchers/sites and CATC hub

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1. Background to the AHRC-funded Researching Multilingually network project

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Our research network objectives

1. Examine the experiences of researchers in translating, interpreting, and writing up collected and generated data (dialogic, mediated, virtual, textual) from one language to another;

2. Explore ethical issues in the representation of data across more than one language;

3. Identify methods and techniques that improve processes of researching multilingually;

4. Develop a conceptual framework of researching multilingually processes; and

5. Explore recommendations and guidelines for researching multilingually that can be implemented by all researchers, and research training programmes.

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Definition

• Researching multilingually – “the use of more than one language in the

research process and its dissemination”

• Cf. researching multilingualism, researching ML contexts

Holmes, P., Fay, R., Andrews, J., Attia, M. (2013). Researching multilingually: New theoretical and methodological directions.

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, 23(3), 285-299.

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Methodology

- Initially…- Seminars (35)- Researcher network (more than 50)- Profiles of researchers (narratives)

- And later…- Policy document analysis- RM workshops for doctoral researchers

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Researcher Network

Focus on researcher thinking in relation to RM-ly

Corpus RM-ly website [www.researchingmultilingually.com]

The profiles as outward-facing performances of reflection- on-

action (Boud & walker, 1998; Schön, 1983, 1987)

What the profiles suggest in terms of Developing Researcher

Competence, and in terms of evidence for researcher

intentionality [as ‘purposefulness’] (Stelma & Fay, 2012)

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Two Prompts

The profiles were produced in response to two prompts:

1) What is your experience of doing research multilingually?

2) What is your experience of becoming aware of the complexities in this area?

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Two Prompts

.. In other words:

1) RM-ly in practice

2) Trajectories into awareness

Researchers who become aware

How does awareness happen?

What intentionality is behind?

What are they aware of?

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Data Analysis

Thematic analysis of each profile separately

Looking across the profiles

Identifying particularities and commonalities

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Data Analysis

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Findings

Experiences of RM-ly develop across varying research areas

and settings

Researchers who are aware, may do so through different trajectories

They are aware of various complexities

We have a better idea about how they become aware, how their awareness manifests itself, and what complexities they are aware of

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The New Profiles

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Project outcomes

• Researcher profiles (a conceptualisation of them as performances of developing researcher competence)

• Seminar papers (and analysis of them)• An analysis of research policy documents (with

suggestions for enrichment to better accommodate RM-ly)

• Pedagogic materials (for doctoral researchers)• A developing conceptualisation of the possibilities

for and complexities of RM-ly.

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Emergent conceptualisation

1) Intentionality (a 3-step process)triggering realisationdeveloping awarenessinformed thinking and practice

2) Relationality

Researcher, supervisor, participants, translators/interpreters/transcribersTrust, ethics, power

3) Spatiality

Research; researched; researcher; re/presentation

Interdisciplinary insights

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2. The role of the RMTC hub

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Roles

- Co-I Prue Holmes (RMTC hub leader)- Co-Is Jane Andrews, Richard Fay- PDRA Mariam Attia- 2 PhDs Melissa Chapman, Omar

Kemperman

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RMTC hub objectives

1. How do researchers generate, translate, interpret and write up data (dialogic, mediated, textual, performance) from one language to another?

2. What ethical issues emerge in the planning and execution of data collection and representation (textual, visual, performance) where multiple languages are present?

3. What methods and techniques improve processes of researching multilingually?

4. How does multimodality (e.g. visual methods, ‘storying’, performance) complement and facilitate multilingual researcher praxis?

5. How can researchers develop clear multilingual researcher practices and yet also be open to emergent research design?

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3. Methodology

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Methodology – data sources

(i) the five case studies (data generated by the methods outlined in each case and other emergent methods)

(ii) reflections and narratives gathered from researchers’ journals, virtual communication tools, and multilingual researcher practice

(iii) data generated within interactive social media and other virtual sites (e.g., the project blog)

(iv) performative data (generated by the CATC hub)

(v) RMTC hub members’ dialogues, reflections, observations, and where necessary, their own data collection with researchers and participants, and with documents

(vi) RMTC hub researchers’ synthesis and insights drawn from researching multilingually practices and representation across the project

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Methodology – data generation

(i) narrative inquiry – meaning-making as ‘the narrative construction of reality’ (Bruner 1991): participants narrate their lives; narratives are embodied in the context of the research sites; researchers reflect on and narrate their researching processes; narratives of dissemination (dialogic, textual, visual, performance) are spaces for meaning making

(ii) multimodal methods of data generation, developed in collaboration with the CATC hub to establish sensitive and site responsive researching multilingually practices

(iii) ethnographic fieldwork and dialogic encounters in case study sites with researchers

(iv) dialogic and multimodal workshops (where the RMTC and CATC hubs and researchers come together to share and make sense of multilingual research practice)

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Methodology – data analysis methods

(i) The software MAXQDA, which is sensitive to non-Romanised scripts such as Arabic and Ge’ez, to collate and analyse these data

(ii) Thematic analysis (Braun and Clarke 2006)(iii) Critical discourse analysis (Fairclough 2010; Gee 2011) for

textual and dialogic data(iv) multimodal methods of analysis (Jewitt 2011) for visual and

performance data analysis

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4. Getting started (Phase 1, Literature Review, June to October, 2014)

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Getting startedPhase 1 – Literature Review

(i) Our own lit review, drawing on• earlier RM-ly thematic analysis of lit• lit in other languages

(ii) Monitoring lit reviews in CS sites (shadowing, drawing on researcher reflections via narratives)

(iii) Collaborating with CATC hub who will ‘translate’ research data into performative data

=> Close links and communication with researchers in CATC and CSs

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5. How we will engage with the project partners

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Engaging with project partners

Case study sites?

• Ongoing dialogue• Content (CS) vs. process

(RMTC hub)• Process – we observe to

develop– Methodology– Pedagogy– Theory generation– Ethics– Policy

• CS expectations about engaging with us?

CATC hub?

• Ongoing dialogue

• CATC hub seeing us doing our work (how we develop, analyse, present data)

• RMTC hub seeing CATC hub doing their work

• CATC hub expectations about engaging with us?

… and Alison?

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Thank you!

From the RMTC hub