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Selected Works of Meg Gebhard
Contribution to Book
Institutional ethnography
The encyclopedia of applied linguistics (2012)
  • Meg L. Gebhard, University of Massachusetts - Amherst
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Abstract

Institutional ethnography (IE) is a method of inquiry that describes institutional situations in detail and analyzes how people's actions and interpretations make these situations recognizable as particular kinds of institutional contexts (Smith, 2005).

Keywords
  • Academic language; English language learners; Systemic functional linguistics; Genre; Second language literacy; Teacher education
Disciplines
Publication Date
2012
Editor
C. Chapelle & L. Harklau
Publisher
Wiley Blackwell
Citation Information
Meg L. Gebhard. "Institutional ethnography" MaldenThe encyclopedia of applied linguistics (2012)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/meg_gebhard/24/