Interviews in Applied Linguistics

This book is a personal reflection on research interviews. Written as an autobiography, it invites the reader to accompany the author on his personal journey of over three decades of research carried out on a range of topics in a range of contexts.

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David Block is ICREA Research Professor in Sociolinguistics at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona. He is author of Political Economy and Sociolinguistics: Neoliberalism, Inequality and Social Class (2018), Post-Truth and Political Discourse (2019) and Innovations and Challenges in Identity Research (2022). He co-edits the Routledge book series Language, Society and Political Economy with Will Simpson.

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Acknowledgements

Introduction

1 Early research: metaphors we teach and learn by

2 The PhD years: learner perceptions of classroom events

3 Lessons learned in my early research

4 A journey through conceptualizations of research interviews

5 The middle period: interviewing a range of different migrants in London

6 Teaching interviewing

7 The latter years and the end

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