Research approaches in applied linguistics.

1. Quantitative and qualitative have had a lot of development.

2. Research paradigm or approach has this components.

2.1. A philosophical basis regarding epistemology

2.2. An ideology concerning ontology.

2.3. A corresponding methodology

3. Critical "emergent approach"

3.1. Is approached tolanguage use and education that seeks to connect the ocal conditions of language to broader social formations.

4. Quantitative research

4.1. observational research

4.2. Experimentation

4.3. Simulations

5. Qualitative

5.1. Ethnography, case study and interview research

5.2. Narrative inquiry and art-based research

5.3. Sociocultural research

6. Mixed-method research

6.1. Viewed as complementary rather than fundamentally incompatible,

7. Impact of technology on research

7.1. Electronic devices might make things easier for collecting and analyzing data

7.2. Useful in applied psycholinguistics, corpus linguistics, discourse analysis, and testing

7.3. New technologies have also enhanced research with minority populations in AL.

8. Participants and populations

8.1. Characteristics of groups under investigation have implications for methodology and theory.

8.2. Some groups have required new methodological approaches not previously used because these populations were excluded from earlier research.