Full Description
Designed to support you on your next major research project, this book brings together authors from a range of diverse contexts and career stages to share their own research reflections and their extensive experience supporting graduate students in conducting independent research projects.
Covering a range of research approaches and methods, this book provides the perfect research companion, guiding you through the principles of research design and research ethics, taking you through the planning stages and into the methodological approaches and their common applications. With worked examples, visuals, research scenarios, case studies, reflections, tasks, reflective activities, key takeaways and tips for further reading, this is a comprehensive how-to guide to suit a range of international research contexts and provide the skills and inspiration to undertake your research with rigour, precision and confidence.
Contents
List of Figures and Tables
Notes on Contributors
Introductory chapters
What is Research?
Kenneth Fordyce
An Overview of Methodological Approaches
Maririn Hennebry-Leung
Planning Research
Angela M. Gayton
Research Ethics in Applied Linguistics
Tove Larsson, Merja Kytö, Luke Plonsky, Scott Sterling, Katherine Yaw
Conversation Analysis
Daniel Lam
Critical Discourse Analysis
Loc Dinh, Tom Bartlett
Corpus Methods for Linguistic Analysis
Raffaella Bottini
Conducting Interviews
Nina Inavati, Yi Sun, Jiapei Xia, Xuesong (Andy) Gao
Focus Groups
Xiaomei Sun
Stimulated Recall
Qianqian Zhou, Jian-E Peng
Creative Methods with Young Learners
Ania Byerly
Observation as a Research Method
Maria Inez Probst Lucena, Sávio Siqueira
Questionnaires in Applied Linguistics
Kata Csizér, Imre Fekete
Quasi-experimental Methods
Christopher Nicklin, Luke Plonsky, Joseph P. Vitta
Getting Started with Systematic Reviews
Gary Bonar, Jiazhou Yao, Thi Kin Anh Dang
Appendix A Key to Tasks in Chapter 13
Appendix B Answers to Tasks in Chapter 14
