Doctoral candidate Rosiane Barcelos de Oliveira, Visiting Assistant Professor of Applied Linguistics Jennifer Sclafani at Umass Boston, and Alexander Nikolaou from Hellenic American University presented their critical reflections on qualitative research methods at the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) 2023. Their presentation titled Critical Reflections on Qualitative Research Methods in the Study of Affect in Heritage Language Maintenance in Bilingual, Immersion, Heritage, and Minority Education (BIH) strand explored the maintenance of Brazilian Portuguese and Modern Greek in North American diasporic contexts. Rosiane, Dr. Sclafani, and Dr. Nikolaou drew on their experiences in a multi-sited ethnographic case study of a trilingual family (Portuguese, Spanish, English) and ethnographic interviews of adult heritage language speakers of Modern Greek.