Researching Multilingually

Bridget Goodman is an Associate Professor, Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan. She is co-editor of Autoethnographic Explorations of Lived Raciolinguistic Experiences Among Multilingual Scholars: Looking Inward to Move Forward (with Qianqian Zhang-Wu, Multilingual Matters, 2025). Brian Seilstad is Director for Internationalization and Partnerships, Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco. He is the author of Educating Adolescent Newcomers in the Superdiverse Midwest: Multilingual Students in English-centric Contexts (Multilingual Matters, 2021).

Contributors



Chapter 1. Bridget Goodman and Brian Seilstad: Making Meaning of ‘Researching Multilingually’



Part 1: Revisiting and Reimagining Multilingual Approaches to Research



Chapter 2. Anthony J. Liddicoat and Martine Derivry-Plard: Research Practice as a Multilingual Habitus



Chapter 3. Michael Singh and Lǐ Xiǎo-Lí (李晓黎): Bourdieu and Sayad’s Contributions to Researching Multilingually: Creating Knowledge through Postmonolingual Theorising



Chapter 4. Theron Muller and John Lindsay Adamson: Translanguaging in Writing for Academic and Publication Purposes: Autoethnographic Insights from the Japanese Tertiary Context



Chapter 5. Nhung Nguyễn: Making an Original Contribution to Transknowledging: Researching Multilingually through Postmonolingual Theorising



Part 2: Wrestling with the Complexity of Researching Multilingually



Chapter 6. Bridget Goodman and Ainur Almukhambetova: Conducting Research Multilingually in an English-Medium University: Reflexive Narratives of a Student and a Supervisor



Chapter 7. Sary Silvhiany: Navigating Languages and Identities: A Reflexive Account of Learning to Research Multilingually



Chapter 8. Michele Back: When Multilingualism Fails: Positioning 'Failure' in Intergenerational Language Transmission, Language Learning and Language Teaching



Chapter 9. G Yeon Park and Jae-hyun Im: A Translingual Perspective on Data Collection and Analysis in Computer-Mediated Communication



Chapter 10. Juval V. Racelis, Yuching Jill Yang and Daniel V. Bommarito: Harnessing Benefits of Multilingual Data Collection: An Examination of Two Critical Sites of Translation



Part 3: Embracing the Challenges of Researching Multilingually



Chapter 11. Mateus Yumarnamto: Transcribing and Translating Multilingual Data: Discovering the Third Space, Imagined Communities and the Malin Kundang Curse



Chapter 12. Fiona Willans and Rajendra Prasad: Researching Multilingual, Multimodal Insights into the Online Learning Experience: Getting in the Zone



Chapter 13. Yoo Young Ahn: A New Researcher’s Journey of Researching Transnationally and Multilingually: A Practical Guide Reflecting on Significance and Methodological Changes



Chapter 14. Artanti Puspita Sari: 'Am I an Insider or an Outsider?' The Dilemmas of Positionality in One’s Own Multilingual Community



Chapter 15. Fatma F.S. Said: Navigating Multilingual Data in Sociolinguistics: Challenges and Strategies for Transcription, Translation and Presentation



Chapter 16. Mary M. Jacobs: English Hegemony Hovers: Monolingual Reflections on Multilingual Research with Newly Settled Families in Aotearoa New Zealand



Chapter 17. Brian Seilstad: Translanguaging and its Methodological Implications for Multilingual Research: A Reflection from Ethnographic Work with Adolescent Newcomers in Superdiverse Central Ohio



Chapter 18. Bridget Goodman and Brian Seilstad: Reflections and Future Directions for Researching Multilingually



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