Shawn Loewen is Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics and Germanic, Slavic, Asian and African Languages at Michigan State University, USA.Luke Plonsky is Assistant Professor of Applied Linguistics at Northern Arizona University, USA.

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The A-Z Guide of Applied Linguistics Research Methods is a slim, clearly designed, easy-to-use instrument than aims to assist researchers and ‘consumers’ of research … to quickly get an overview of research methods in applied linguistics, together with the practices and terminology that go with them … It can function as a primer or as a go-back-to type of guide, and its authors are to be commended for this welcome addition to the literature on research methods in applied linguistics.