Interviewing as a Data Collection Method: A Critical Review

By Hamza Alshenqeeti. 2014

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Through this paper I would critically assess the value and limitations of interviewing as a research instrument. Therefore, my discussion, which would be based on methodological issues allied with the use of interviews in qualitative social science research, is two-fold. Firstly, I briefly review the literature concerning the use of interviews, discuss interviews' types and illustrate the differences between these types. Then, issues regarding interviewing in practice will be discussed, ending this part with a brief review of the notion of interviewing in linguistic research. Secondly, a critical evaluation of the method will be presented, including a consideration of its usefulness and pitfalls, followed by discussing issues of validity and reliability of using interviews as a research instrument. To end with, ethical issues concerning the use of interviews will be discussed before drawing on our conclusion.

Subfields: Education

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Citations in the corpus

• Management challenges in creating value from business analytics (2017, background): “Interviews represent a powerful way to elicit narrative data that enables researchers to investigate people’s views in depth (Kvale, 2003; Alshenqeeti, 2014).”
• Literature Review for the Type of Interview in Qualitative Research (2017, methodology): “As analysts point out, this is the most used type of interview in qualitative researchers (Alshenqeeti, 2014).”