Complex cartography as research method in applied linguistics: outlining and evaluating a concept
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https://doi.org/10.48075/ri.v24i1.25272Keywords:
Applied Linguistics, Methodology, Complex Cartography, Biology of Cognition, Paradigm of Complexity.Abstract
In this study, the objective is the proposition and evaluation of “complex cartography” as a transdisciplinary method relevant to the field of Applied Linguistics (AL) and other correlated areas. The theoretical background of the article covers the assumptions of Biology of Cognition and the Paradigm of Complexity. The study is characterized by a methodological research, whose focus relies on its own scientific approach and the (re)thinking of procedures and methods. Firstly, a literature review on the cartographic method is done. After that, we presented an experience of implementation and evaluation of a complex cartography in an online teacher training course, carried out with 13 teachers who were graduated or undergraduate students of Modern Language – Distance Learning. The context of the research is this online course, carried out in 2019, during four weeks, in which the teachers-course takers wrote self-narratives, which are powerful tools of a complex epistemology. It was possible to conclude that complex cartography – as a method – may contribute to the research in AL in the sense that it may embrace a dynamic reality and of the subjective dimension of that reality.
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