Doing Replication Research in Applied Linguistics

Graeme Porte is Senior Lecturer in English Language and Applied Linguistics at the University of Granada, Spain. He has been Editor of the Cambridge University Press journal Language Teaching for 15 years and lectures and writes on quantitative research methods with a particular emphasis on research critique and replication research.Kevin McManus is Watz Early Career Professor in Language and Linguistics, Associate Director of the Center for Language Acquisition, and Assistant Professor of Applied Linguistics at the Pennsylvania State University, USA. His research specializations include second language learning and teaching, psycholinguistics, research methodology, and replication research.

• Contents1 Introduction: Why replication research matters2 Finding a study to replicate: Background research3 Planning your replication research project4What kind of replication should you do? From the inside, looking out: initial critique and internal replication5What kind of replication should you do? From the outside, looking in6Executing and writing up your replication study: Research questions and methodology7Executing and writing up your replication study: Analysis, Results, Discussion and Conclusion 8Disseminating your research9 Epilogue