Writing 5 : Summary of Journal 5

Now i am talking about the article that i have read, the article is about narrative inquiry. Narrative inquiry is a story or a collection of stories. Doing narrative inquiry means involving eliciting and documenting the narrative. Bruner (1990) said that narrative inquiry is based on the premise that we understand or make sense of our lives through narrative. Narrative inquiry is conducive to documenting the changing conditions of lives and the impact these new conditions can have over time on all aspects of an individual’s life, including language learning. We cannot deny that narrative inquiry has impacts in people’s lives and also in other certain fields. There are many benefits to this type of research, the most important is the variety of insights narrative. Narrative inquiry has been used in the field of applied linguistics to explore motivation, identity, multilingualism, learning strategies, language loss, autonomy and self-directed learning. Narrative inquiry can yield practical pedagogical information. According to Cole & Knowles (2001), just as there are many approaches to narrative inquiry, there are many ways to do life history research. So, to collect the data there are many ways to be considered such as develop research design, prepare interview questions, conduct a pilot study, select participants, establish a rapport with the participant, conduct and transcribe the interviews.

So, my opinion about narrative inquiry, just like previously that narrative inquiry is impactful in every individual’s life as well as some certain fields. Somehow, narrative inquiry is important for researchers and also for everyone who wants to conduct this because narrative inquiry involves stories of individual experiences.

Reference:

Murray, G. (2009). Narrative inquiry. Qualitative inquiry in applied linguistics (pp. 45-65). Okayama University, Palgrave Macmillan