ABSTRACT
This chapter demonstrates how qualitative and quantitative methods can be successfully paired. It explains how contemporary qualitative Instructed Second Language Acquisition (ISLA) research associated with classrooms provides helpful lens in understanding how language learning outcomes can be enhanced. Discourse analytic approach: Methods to analyze language use and semiotic events according to framework adopted. Qualitative research today, according to Creswell, involves closer attention to "interpretive nature of inquiry and situating study within political, social, and cultural context of researchers, and reflexivity or 'presence' of researchers in accounts they present". To better capture dynamics of classroom and emergent interactions that may occur among students and teachers, future qualitative researchers may wish to include open observations that comprise categories that emerge during the observation process. Data sources included structured interviews with students and teachers, classroom, school and excursion observations, and artifacts. The chapter illustrates how various SLA theories and qualitative methodologies can be used to better understand dynamics surrounding language learners.
