Aek Phakiti, Peter De Costa, Luke Plonsky, and Sue Starfield (eds): THE PALGRAVE HANDBOOK OF APPLIED LINGUISTICS RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

The transdisciplinary field of applied linguistics has recently witnessed a wide-ranging and booming methodological reform in research, which brought about what Byrnes (2013) and Plonsky (2017) has referred to as ‘methodological turn’ (p. 825) and ‘methodological awareness’ (p. 517), respectively. This growing awareness in ‘meta-researchism’ in the emerging field of applied linguistics is roughly contemporaneous with a nascent call in social...