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Trustworthiness, Current Debates, Future Directions

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This chapter unpacks the issues of trustworthiness and soundness, and explains how they can be accomplished in empirical studies that use positioning analysis. It also discusses in detail the shortcomings of positioning theory along with directions for future studies. The chapter concludes with implications and insights that positioning theory and relevant literature offer for second/foreign language classrooms and teacher education.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    For further explanation of Anderson’s mediation matrix, see Anderson, K. T. (2009). Applying positioning theory to the analysis of classroom interactions: Mediating micro-identities, macro-kinds, and ideologies of knowing. Linguistics and Education,20(4), 291–310.

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    See the following reviews on the topic: Hubbard, P. (2013). Twenty-five years of theory in the CALICO Journal. Calico Journal, 25(3), 387–399. Lai, C., & Li, G. (2011). Technology and task-based language teaching: A critical review. Calico Journal,28(2), 498–521.

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Kayı-Aydar, H. (2019). Trustworthiness, Current Debates, Future Directions. In: Positioning Theory in Applied Linguistics. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97337-1_7

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