Through two narrative inquiries, in this article I explore the challenges for qualitative researchers in working with multiple languages in capturing, translating, analyzing, and representing narratives. I discuss the effect on research when we engage in these processes considering what was happening as we translated both texts and experience from…

An interpretivist framework and qualitative research methods were used to examine language in five preschool classes composed of children with and without disabilities. Children's language use included spoken, written, signed, and typed forms. Results showed complex communicative and literacy language use outside conventional adult perspectives.…