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Dear Adrian, As a follow on from James's suggestion, the below article does not come specifically from ESOL research, but might be worth a read. It discusses the conduct of multilingual focus groups in community research with individuals, many of whom would be ESOL learners. Some of the affordances and challenges of drawing on participants' and researchers' own linguistic resources as tools to support participatory research (instead of relying on an interpreter acting exclusively as such) in a diverse linguistic setting are explored. Ganassin, S. & Holmes, P. (2013). Multilingual Research practices in Community Research: The case of Migrant/Refugee Women in North East England. International Journal of Applied Linguistics 23(3): 342-356 Best wishes, Judith Dr Judith Reynolds Teaching Fellow School of Education Durham University Leazes Road, Durham, DH1 1TA PhD Researcher, Researching Multilingually at the Borders of Language, the Body, Law and the State Project website: http://researching-multilingually-at-borders.com/ T: +44 (0)191 334 8415 E: [log in to unmask] *********************************** ESOL-Research is a forum for researchers and practitioners with an interest in research into teaching and learning ESOL. ESOL-Research is managed by James Simpson at the Centre for Language Education Research, School of Education, University of Leeds. To join or leave ESOL-Research, visit http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/ESOL-RESEARCH.html To contact the list owner, send an email to [log in to unmask]