May I see your warrant, please?: Justifying outcomes in qualitative research

Author(s): Richards, K.

Journal/Book: Appl Linguist. 1998; 19: Great Clarendon St, Oxford OX2 6DP, England. Oxford Univ Press. 334-356.

Abstract: Despite both resistance from the dominant orthodoxy and complications caused by the competing claims of new paradigm diversity, there is a pressing need for TESOL researchers to engage productively with the richness of intellectual opportunity currently available in the human sciences. There are three possible avenues of growth: to extend conventional research parameters; to align one's work with a recognized radical alternative; to develop an individual stance. Any effective response must address questions of position (the research tradition in terms of which one wishes to be evaluated), voice (in terms of who is given space to speak) and representation (the farm of discourse chosen). Taken together, these form the basis of legitimization tin terms of disputable argument) and authentication tin terms of contextualized credibility). They are, therefore, fundamental to the provision of adequate warrant for the research in which TESOL needs to be involved. This question of what constitutes a warrant is the central issue.

Note: Article Edge J, Aston Univ, Birmingham B4 7ET, W Midlands, ENGLAND

Keyword(s): APPLIED LINGUISTICS; ETHNOGRAPHY; THOUGHTS; TEACHERS; VALIDITY; LIFE; SLA

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