Meddegama, Indu Vibha ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9667-0831 (2017) A narrative on the use of interviews to shape an ethnographic research into family language practices. In: Researching Education for Social Justice in Multilingual Settings. Bloomsbury, pp. 121-136

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Abstract

Starting from birth, throughout the entirety of our lives, one thing that allows us to understand better the everyday phenomena that we encounter, is enquiry. And so from the moment we are able to communicate – verbally, gesturally or through technological aids – we interact with others asking and answering questions of Why and How amongst a plethora of others. It is this process of enquiry or interviewing, as it is known in formal interactions, that became a key data collection instrument in my ethnographic research on three immigrant multilingual Malayali families living in the North of England.

Item Type:	Book Section
Status:	Published
Subjects:	P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics
School/Department:	School of Education, Language and Psychology
URI:	https://ray.yorksj.ac.uk/id/eprint/2136

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