Includes bibliographical references and index.

Teacher research engagement : primary motivators and obstacles / Christine Coombe and Dean Sheetz -- Critiquing the research of others / Eric Dwyer and Benjamin Baez -- Applying for research funding and grants / Ahmar Mahboob -- Using research in the language classroom / Andy Curtis -- Framing and defining your research project / Liying Cheng -- Deciding upon a research methodology / James Dean Brown -- Essentials of quantitative research for classroom teachers / Thom Hudson -- Qualitative research / Keith Richards -- Research paradigms in second language research / Peter Stanfield -- Mixed methods research / James Dean Brown -- Critical research in TESOL and language education / Salah Troudi -- Action research / Anne Burns -- Teacher research / Simon Borg -- Case-study research / Patricia A. Duff and Tim Anderson -- Corpus research / Jesse Egbert, Shelley Staples and Douglas Biber -- Conversation analysis / John Hellermann -- Discourse analysis / Brian Paltridge -- Replication research in quantitative research / Graeme Porte -- Ethnography / David M. Palfreyman -- Narrative inquiry / Lauren Stephenson and Barbara Harold -- Doing a literature review and creating your research niche / Ali Shehadeh -- Ethics in research / Magdalena Kubanylova -- Human subjects review / Dudley W. Reynolds -- Creating effective research questions / Deena Boraie and Atta Gebril -- Sampling and what it means / John McE. Davis -- Conducting interviews / Gabriele Kasper -- Constructing questionnaires / Christine Coombe and Peter Davidson -- Conducting focus groups / Sena C. Pierce -- Using introspective methods / Sheryl V. Taylor and Donna Sobel -- Designing and using rubrics / Larry Davis -- Conducting diary studies / Kathleen M. Bailey -- Analyzing your data statistically / Matthew A. Robby and Cristina Gitsaki -- Presenting your research / Andy Curtis -- Publishing your research / Paul Kei Matsuda -- Using research in language-program evaluation / Janet Orr and Deon Edwards-Kerr -- "It's like crossing a desert" : an oasis of language teacher research across six continents / Thomas S.C. Farrell.