Narrative Knowledging in TESOL

Abstract

This article introduces the special-topic issue on Narrative Research in TESOL. It begins by describing the concept of narrative knowledging and continues with a discussion of narrative (co)construction, analysis, and reporting, integrating into the discussion research issues related to TESOL narrative research interrogated by the authors in this issue. This broad discussion is organized in the form of a framework which delineates the generic, mutually informing stages and participants, and their interrelationships, in narrative research projects.