Herbert W. Seliger and Elana Shohamy (1989), in their book, Second Language Research Methods, discussed the following topics concerning research methodology.

Chapter 1 What is research?
Chapter 2 A paradigm for second language research
Chapter 3 The preparatory stages of research
Chapter 4 Contextualization of research
Chapter 5 The components of research
Chapter 6 Research design: qualitative and descriptive research
Chapter 7 Research design: experimental research
Chapter 8 Data and data collection procedures
Chapter 9 Analyzing the data
Chapter 10 Putting it all together

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