Researching Multilingually: Conceptual and Methodological Failures, Struggles and Successes

This book examines what ’researching multilingually’ means in practice and theory. The chapter authors reflect on the process of conducting, analyzing and reporting multilingual research in various settings, and propose new ways of understanding best practices while also addressing challenges and at times ’failures’ in the research process.

Bridget Goodman is an Associate Professor, Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan. She is co-editor of Looking Inward: Autoethnographic Explorations of Lived Raciolinguistic Experiences Among Multilingual Scholars (with Qianqian Zhang-Wu, Multilingual Matters, 2025).

Brian Seilstad is Director for Internationalization and Partnerships, Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco. He is the author of Educating Adolescent Newcomers in the Superdiverse Midwest: Multilingual Students in English-centric Contexts (Multilingual Matters, 2021).