Narrative Inquiry

Narrative research designs:

• quantitative procedures

• describe the lives of individuals

• collect and tell stories about these individuals’ lives

• write narratives about their experiences.

Past, present, and future experiences (Major Characteristics in Narrative Inquiry)

• Restorying

• Life stories

• Collaboration

• Chronology of experiences

Seeks to understand and represent experiences through the stories individual(s) live and tell.

It is the explanation of:

• IDENTIFYING A RESEARCH PROBLEM

• FORMULATING RESEARCH QUESTIONS

• FINDING REVIEW THE LITERATURE

• DESIGNING RESEARCH METHOD

Seeks to minimize the use of literature and focuses on the experiences of the individual(s).

It is the explanation of:

• IDENTIFYING A RESEARCH PROBLEM

• FORMULATING RESEARCH QUESTIONS

• FINDING REVIEW THE LITERATURE

• DESIGNING RESEARCH METHOD

Seeks to explore the meaning of the individual’s experiences as told through a story or stories.

It is the explanation of:

• IDENTIFYING A RESEARCH PROBLEM

• FORMULATING RESEARCH QUESTIONS

• FINDING REVIEW THE LITERATURE

• DESIGNING RESEARCH METHOD

Seeks to collect field texts that document the individual’s story in his or her own words.

It is the explanation of:

• IDENTIFYING A RESEARCH PROBLEM

• FORMULATING RESEARCH QUESTIONS

• FINDING REVIEW THE LITERATURE

• DESIGNING RESEARCH METHOD

The research titles of Narrative Inquiry, except:

• DESIGNING A CROSS-CULTURAL COLLABORATIVE ONLINE LEARNING FRAMEWORK FOR ONLINE INSTRUCTORS

• EXPLORING ORAL ENGLISH LEARNING MOTIVATION IN CHINESE INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS WITH LOW ORAL ENGLISH PROFICIENCY

• RE-TELLING: A NARRATIVE INQUIRY OF INDONESIAN GRADUATE STUDENTS’ SPEAKING EXPERIENCES IN A UNITED KINGDOM UNIVERSITY

• THE STORIES OF THE STUDENT TEACHER EXTENSIVE READING ACTIVITY AS THEIR EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING

In the research entitled Re-telling: A Narrative inquiry of Indonesian graduate students’ speaking experiences in a United Kingdom university, how many participants are included?

• Two Malaysian graduate students

• Two Indonesian undergraduate students

• Two American graduate students

• Two Indonesian graduate students

In the research entitled Re-telling: A Narrative

inquiry of Indonesian graduate students’ speaking experiences in a United Kingdom university, what did the writer do to ensure the trustworthiness of the data?

• Using four instruments of collecting the data

• Asking a help to a research collaborator

• Using the expert validation

• Including the participants in this process by returning both the transcriptions of the stories and the analysis

In the research entitled Re-telling: A Narrative

inquiry of Indonesian graduate students’ speaking experiences in a United Kingdom university, to obtain the stories in relation to speaking experiences by students, ............. was used.

• an observation

• an open ended questionnaire

• an in-depth narrative interview

• a reflective journal