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Data Analysis Beyond Coding

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Coding procedures and the categorization of data segments are widely used as procedures of making sense of data in qualitative research in different fields. However, grounded theory perspectives and coding techniques are not the only way of qualitative data analysis or even the preferred means of data analysis among the traditions of qualitative inquiry. Some qualitative research traditions even basically distance themselves from coding and categorization and view data analysis as a fundamentally different process. This chapter is about other ways of data analysis that can open new horizons to beginner qualitative language education researchers as well as those who may view coding as the face of qualitative data analysis. Specifically, the chapter focuses on narrative analysis which might be viewed as an approach with considerable potentials to enrich qualitative inquiry in the area of language education.

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Mirhosseini, SA. (2020). Data Analysis Beyond Coding. In: Doing Qualitative Research in Language Education. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-56492-6_8

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