Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of contributors -- Foreword -- Editorial introduction -- 1 Realities of doing research in applied linguistics -- PART I Responding to problems in the research planning stage -- 2 Studying up, down, or across?: Selecting who to research -- 3 Responding to theoretical shifts in research design -- 4 Overcoming problematic positionality and researcher objectivity -- 5 Doing collaborative research: Challenges and opportunities -- PART II Responding to problems during data collection -- 6 Adjusting to contextual constraints: Methodological shifts in local research projects -- 7 Dealing with participant attrition in longitudinal studies -- 8 Dealing with low response rates in quantitative studies -- 9 Dealing with multilingualism in quantitative research -- PART III Researching vulnerable groups -- 10 It isn't child's play: Conducting research with children as participants -- 11 Conducting longitudinal fieldwork among adult refugees -- 12 Researching people with illnesses and disabilities: Ethical dimensions -- 13 Conducting research with deaf sign language users -- 14 Researching your own students: Negotiating the dual practitioner - researcher role -- PART IV Responding to problems during data analysis -- 15 Dealing with longitudinal quantitative designs and data analysis -- 16 Managing researcher dilemmas in narrative interview data and analysis -- 17 Grappling with originality and grounding in qualitative data analysis -- 18 Negotiating the relationship between theory and practice in the fields of literacy and language -- PART V Responding to problems in the reporting of research -- 19 Dealing with controversial findings -- 20 Reporting on politically sensitive issues: The case of telling the truth about early L2 instruction