Addressing meta-research is contemporaneous with a nascent call in the field of applied
linguistics and L2 studies for methodological awareness. Adhering to synthetic techniques …

This review of recent scholarship (RRS) paper is a follow-up of the first, published in this
journal in 2014. For this RRS paper, we identified and included 304 mixed-methods …

The current study draws on synthetic techniques and bibliometric analysis to explore the
patterns of scientific collaboration in light of methodological orientations. We examined …

Since the 2010s, the appeal for utilizing mixed methods research in applied linguistics and
its related strands has been expanding. However, recent text-based studies highlighted …

The steady expansion in qualitative research in the area of language education over the last
two decades indicates the growing recognition of its importance to investigating issues of …

In this response to Lee (2022), I posit that translanguaging has prompted a re-evaluation of
applied linguistics and sociolinguistics methodology in part because the theory has …

Typically, interview data thematic analyses employ common-sense approaches to thematic
analysis (King et al., 2018). Such an approach necessitates that the researcher identifies …

Globalization, in spite of its merits and demerits, has made diverse cultures come into closer
contact (Huang, 2012) and the process of globalization has overshadowed the whole world …

The increasing use of English as a medium of education (EME) in higher education has
attracted an impressive amount of applied linguistic research, reflecting the pivotal role …

This study aimed to explore the adoption of mixed methods designs (MMDs) in applied
linguistics research (2007–2021) and the types most commonly adopted. A purposive …