Doing Second Language Research

There are now many introductions to language research available. Whatmakes Doing Second Language Research different and special is that itputs you inside the research process. It does this by giving youdifferent roles within a variety of mini-studies. This means you canget a feel for what it's like to be a research subject, researchorganizer, research data collector, research data analyst, andresearch reporter. All of this is meant to help you prepare for thefinal goal of designing your own research. The book is organized intofour parts: - Part One is a general introduction to the nature ofresearch. - Part Two covers qualitative research and contains chapters on case study research, introspection research (use of verbalprotocols), and classroom research (interaction analysis). - Part Three covers quantitative research and contains chapters ondescriptive statistics research (survey analysis), correlationalresearch (into language learning and teac