Duoethnography and English for research publication purposes: Promises and challenges

Abstract

In this paper, we explain how to conduct and apply duoethnography innovatively, given its lack of prescribed methodological steps. We discuss the theoretical underpinnings of duoethnography, its central tenets, its methodological constraints, and its challenges and limitations. More specifically, we explain how this promising innovative methodology can be adopted in the fast-growing field of English for Research Publication Purposes (ERPP) within Applied Linguistics to examine and investigate rhetorical, socio-political, and contextual aspects of the production and dissemination of knowledge and writing for scholarly publication practices. This paper aims to provide important pedagogical and scholarly implications for researchers in Applied Linguistics in general and ERPP in particular, especially novice scholars and doctoral students that are interested in reflective and reflexive methodologies and orientations.