@article{oai:unii.repo.nii.ac.jp:00000200, author = {Adamson, John Lindsay and Brown, Howard and Fujimoto-Adamson, Naoki and Adamson, John Lindsay and Brown, Howard and Fujimoto-Adamson, Naoki}, issue = {2}, journal = {Asian EFL Journal}, month = {}, note = {application/pdf, Journal Article, This study has illustrated how a long-term ethnographic approach of archiving data and profiling its key participants represents an effective means of revealing perceptions of a new Self-Access Learning Center (SALC) within a university in Japan. This on-going process of conducting qualitative interviews and conversational narratives with center staff, accompanied by student questionnaires, has required methodological reduction of the large amount of ensuing data. Such a process is achieved by a combination of crystallization of themes emerging from dialogues, and analysis of questionnaire data from various perspectives. This methodology reflects the researchers' wishes to investigate the self-access center where they work in a manner more locally situated, co-constructive and, importantly, in one which accords voice and agency to peripheral SALC stakeholders. As a study for the purpose of the continuous improvement of practice, the triangulated methodology employed to gather and analyze data can be adopted by other self-access centers seeking a rich, diverse body of evidence and an analytical framework to respond to the pedagogical and institutional environment where they operate.}, pages = {11--33}, title = {Archiving Self-Access : Methodological considerations}, volume = {13}, year = {2011}, yomi = {アダムソン, ジョン リンジー and ブラウン, ハワード and フジモト-アダムソン, ナオキ} }