Martine Pellerin
University of Alberta, Alberta, Canada
pellerin@ualberta.ca
Digital and Transformative Ethnography Provides New
Methodological and Epistemological Perspectives for CALL
Research
Bio Data
Martine Pellerin
teaches in education specializing in French as a second language and
French in a minority setting in both undergraduate and graduate programs. She regularly
gives continuous professional training to teachers. Her research specializes on oral for
learning; differentiated instruction in French Immersion teaching and qualitative
assessment using digital technology.
Abstract
The emergence of new mobile technologies is changing the ways we teach and learn a
language. These same technologies are also transforming the very meaning of doing
research in a new digital era. The use of digital and mobile tools such as iPod, iPad, and
Smartphone in the language learning context is forcing CALL researchers to rethink not
only the use of technology but also how they do research with technology. The use of
such technological devices by the researched also contributes to reshaping CALL research
for and about them. Therefore, researchers are forced to re-examine the underlying
paradigms that have guided conventional research, and to explore new methodological
and epistemological perspectives for CALL research.
This paper explores how digital and transformative ethnography provides new
methodological and epistemological perspectives for doing research in CALL. First, the
paper will address the following questions that reside at the heart of the debate about
the necessity for new methodological and epistemological perspectives in CALL contexts:
How does research in CALL take on new forms in our ever-changing digital contexts? How
do digital tools (iPod, tablets, Smartphone) contribute to reshaping and transforming
CALL methodologies? How does the use of these new digital and mobile tools contribute
to new epistemological perspectives in CALL research?
Second, the paper will explore digital and transformative ethnography as a new research
methodology that requires a paradigm shift in CALL research. In particular, it will address
the empowerment of the participants in the CALL inquiry process, the sharing of power
between researchers and participants, the validity of the voice of the participants, and
their rights in shaping the research process. And finally, the paper will examine how
digital ethnography in CALL contexts becomes transformative and produces social
changes.
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