Background The last 15 years or so have seen the emergence of “the social turn”(Block,
2003) in second language acquisition (SLA) research and the rise of theoretical and …

Research Methods in Second Language Acquisition “With its cornucopia of information, both
thorough and practical, this book is a must for our methodology shelves. Its study questions …

" A Dictionary of Research Methodology and Statistics in Applied Linguistics" is a
comprehensive and authoritative reference guide that offers a detailed overview of important …

For some, research in learning and teaching of a second language (L2) runs the risk of
disintegrating into irreconcilable approaches to L2 learning and use. On the one side, we …

In 1995, Ron Scollon (citing Goodwin, 1994) remarked that “research methodology is a
cover term for day-to-day practices which are often less well formed than our final research …

Background Case study research is a potentially powerful yet quite practical form of inquiry
and theory building that has led to important insights since the inception of the field of …

In a field as vast as applied linguistics (AL), representing the range of topics featured in this
volume and across the many fascinating subdisciplines in the field, an overview of research …

Although professionals working in second/foreign language pedagogy have always
displayed interest in assessing learners' achievement, the approach to doing so has …

In this second edition of the best-selling Second Language Research, Alison Mackey and
Sue Gass continue to guide students step-by-step through conducting the second language …

The chapters in this volume attest to the fact that second language acquisition (SLA) is,
undeniably, a field of diverse interests. Since the field's inception in the latter half of the 20th …