Author(s)

Jiahui Wang ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ Department of Humanity, Tianjin University of Finance and Economics, Tianjin, 300202, China

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ABSTRACT

As one of the qualitative research methods, narrative research has been widely used in the field of education in recent years, which produces the term "educational narrative research", and has gradually emerged in language teaching and learning. But is narrative research in language teaching just storytelling? Apparently not. So, who owns the story? Can anyone tell? How should the story be told? It is found that narrative research explores the stories that people live and tell. These stories are the result of an organical combination of society's effect on a person's inner life, social impact on their environment, and their unique personal history. This essay will further focus on answering these three questions and exploring the ethical issues involved in narrative research.

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Jiahui Wang, A Study on Narrative Research in Language Teaching. Lecture Notes on Language and Literature (2024) Vol. 7: 23-28. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/langl.2024.070404.

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