Overview

This Handbook provides a comprehensive treatment of basic and more advanced research methodologies in applied linguistics and offers a state-of-the-art review of methods particular to various domains within the field. Arranged thematically in 4 parts, across 41 chapters, it covers a range of research approaches, presents current perspectives, and addresses key issues in different research methods, such as designing and implementing research instruments and techniques, and analysing different types of applied linguistics data. Innovations, challenges and trends in applied linguistics research are examined throughout the Handbook. As such it offers an up-to-date and highly accessible entry point into both established and emerging approaches that will offer fresh possibilities and perspectives as well as thorough consideration of best practices. This wide-ranging volume will prove an invaluable resource to applied linguists at all levels, including scholars in related fields such aslanguage learning and teaching, multilingualism, corpus linguistics, critical discourse analysis, discourse analysis and pragmatics, language assessment, language policy and planning, multimodal communication, and translation.

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The most prominent feature of this handbook is in intersecting research synthetic thinking and layering approach orientation towards all the research issues in the sections. Such coherent direction represents a retrospective-and prospective approach, whose proponents attend to both past applied linguistics research and future endeavours in the transdisciplinary field of applied linguistics to provide sound empirical evidence for the complicated questions. ... Another notable feature of the handbook is related to its accessibility to the research consumers with the intermediate level of background on research methodology. (Mohammad Amini Farsani, Applied Linguistics, 24 June, 2019)

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Aek Phakiti is an associate professor in TESOL at The University of Sydney, Australia. Peter De Costa is an assistant professor in the Department of Linguistics and Languages at Michigan State University, USA. Luke Plonsky is an associate professor of Applied Linguistics at Northern Arizona University, USA. Sue Starfield is a professor in the School of Education at The University of New South Wales, Australia.   

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