Doing Research in Applied Linguistics : Realities, dilemmas, and solutions (Paperback)

Foreword by Sandra L. McKay

Editorial Introduction

1. Realities of doing research in applied linguistics
   Heath Rose & Jim McKinley

Part I Responding to problems in the research planning stage

2. Studying down versus studying up: Selecting whom to research
   Ryuko Kubota
3. Responding to theoretical shifts in research design
   Heath Rose
4. Overcoming problematic positionality and researcher objectivity
   Jim McKinley
5. Doing collaborative research: Challenges and opportunities
   Daniel V. Bommarito, Paul Kei Matsuda, Jianing Liu, Juval V. Racelis, Tai-Min Wu, Jing Xia, and Yuching Jill Yang

Part II Responding to problems during data collection

6. Dealing with data collection setbacks and reframing research questions
   John Hedgcock & Heekyeong Lee
7. Dealing with participant attrition in longitudinal studies
   Corinne A. Seals
8. Dealing with low response rates in quantitative studies
   Averil Coxhead
9. Dealing with multilingualism in quantitative research
   Gessica DeAngelis

Part III Researching vulnerable groups

10. It isn’t child’s play: Conducting research with children as participants
    Victoria Murphy & Ernesto Macaro
11. Conducting longitudinal fieldwork among adult refugees
    Lorna Carson
12. Researching people with disabilities and illnesses: ethical dimensions
    Hanako Okada
13. Conducting research with deaf sign language users
    Lorraine Leeson, Jemina Napier, Robert Skinner, Teresa Lynch, Lucia Venturi and Haaris Sheikh
    
14. Researching your own students: Negotiating the dual teacher-researcher role
    Nicola Galloway

Part IV Responding to problems during data analysis

  15.    Dealing with longitudinal quantitative designs and data analysis
           Aek Phakiti

  16.   Managing the uncomfortable side of narrative data and analysis
          Matthew T. Prior

  17.   Grappling with originality and grounding in qualitative data analysis
          Jessica G. Briggs

  18.   Negotiating the relationship between theory and practice in the fields of literacy and language
          Constant Leung & Brian Street

Part V Responding to problems in the reporting of research

  20.    Dealing with controversial findings
           Roslyn Appleby

  21.    Reporting on politically sensitive issues: The case of telling the truth about early L2 instruction
           David Singleton & Simone E. Pfenninger

  22.    Dealining with criticism when publishing qualitative research
           Xuesong Gao

  23.   Representing the self honestly in published research
          Christine Pearson Casanave

  24.   Publishing from a dissertation: One book, or many articles?
          Brian Paltridge

Afterword: Strategies for getting the study published by Andrew Cohen