September 7, 2020

Section 1: 11:00～12:30
Section 2: 13:15～14:45

Abstract
In some cases, graduate level thesis supervisors steer students away from GTM because they either do not know much about the methodology, or because they have seen students produce substandard work based on uninformed attempts to use it in their research.

This seminar explains the methodological practices, purposes, and potential of GTM for qualitative research in applied linguistics. Ways of disseminating grounded theory research so that it complements the discourse conventions of the greater applied linguistics community will also be discussed.

Personal/professional profile:
Gregory Hadley is a Professor of Cultural Studies and Applied Linguistics at Niigata University, Japan. He received his Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics from the University of Birmingham (UK), where his primary focus was in the Sociology of English Language Education. A Visiting Fellow at the University of Oxford, he is a contributor to The SAGE Handbook of Current Developments in Grounded Theory Research (SAGE 2019), and the author of Grounded Theory in Applied Linguistics Research: A Practical Guide (Routledge, 2017) as well as English for Academic Purposes in Neoliberal Universities: A Critical Grounded Theory (Springer, 2015).

The seminar will be held using Zoom. Please contact Hisako Kakai by email to register. hkakai@aoyamagakuin.jp