Linguistic Ethnography

Fiona Copland is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Languages and Social Sciences at Aston University, Birmingham where she is Director of  CLERA (Centre for Language Education Research at Aston).  Before working in higher education, she was an English language teacher in Nigeria, Hong Kong, Japan and the UK, where she also taught on a range of teacher education programmes.  This background has influenced her research interests which include talk in pre-service teacher education conferences and teaching English to young learners, and she has published in these areas.  Since attending a course in ethnography, language and communication jointly run by King’s College University of London and the Institute of Education University of London, she has been an active member of the Linguistic Ethnography Forum, co-organising three conferences.   At Aston, Fiona is the Programmes Director of MSc TESOL courses and teaches a range of post-graduate modules.  She also supervises PhD students in the field of TESOL.  Angela Creese is Professor of Educational Linguistics at the School of Education, University of Birmingham, and deputy director of the MOSAIC Centre for Research on Multilingualism. In the last ten years she has been funded to work in large multilingual research teams to research multilingualism.  Her research interests are in linguistic ethnography, language ecologies, multilingualism in society and multilingual classroom pedagogy. Her publications include Heteroglossia as Practice and Pedagogy (with Adrian Blackledge, 2014, Springer); The Routledge handbook of Multilingualism (2012, with Marilyn Martin-Jones and Adrian Blackledge); Multilingualism: A Critical Perspective (with Adrian Blackledge, 2010, Continuum); Volume 9: Ecology of Language, Encyclopedia of Language and Education (2009); Teacher Collaboration and Talk in Multilingual Classrooms (2005) and Multilingual Classroom Ecologies (2003). 

Ethnography and Language
Linguistic Ethnography
Data in Linguistic Ethnography
Doing Research in Linguistic Ethnography: Building the Case
Case study one: Reflexivity, voice and representation in linguistic ethnography
Case study two: Researching feedback conferences in pre-service teacher training
Case study three: Ethnography and the workplace
Case study four: Ethnography, language and healthcare planning
Practical Issues in Linguistic Ethnographic Research
Empiricism, ethics and impact
Transcription, translation and technology
Writing up: genres, writer voice, audience
Ways forward