Researching Multilingually - by Bridget Goodman & Brian Seilstad

About the Book

This book examines what 'researching multilingually' means in practice and theory. The chapter authors reflect on the process of conducting, analyzing and reporting multilingual research in various settings, and propose new ways of understanding best practices while also addressing challenges and at times 'failures' in the research process.

Book Synopsis

This book examines what 'researching multilingually' means in practice and theory. The chapter authors reflect on the process of conducting, analyzing and reporting multilingual research in various settings, and propose new ways of understanding best practices while also addressing challenges and at times 'failures' in the research process.

Review Quotes

It is rare to see words like 'failures' and 'struggles' in a book title. Yet it is precisely for that reason that this book is so valuable. The editors and contributors have done a great service to the academic community by detailing their experiences of researching multilingually. There are many lessons for us all. The impact of these lessons will be felt for a very long time to come.

Offering critical insights on challenges and opportunities associated with conducting research multilingually in a variety of international, disciplinary, and educational contexts, this timely edited volume exemplifies the multilingual turn and heteroglossic ideologies in applied linguistics. The contributors offer rich theoretical, empirical, and practical insights that will further advance multilingual research methods and reflexivity in our field.

This engaging volume offers new ways of theorizing research on, with and by multilingual speakers in multilingual contexts. It provides a rich collection of testimonies from younger and older scholars on how they have researched the teaching of English in a 'multilingual' manner in various parts of the world. Their honest and mature reflections raise interesting questions about the educational benefits and the political risks of researching multilingually.

About the Author

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).