Daftar Isi:1. Realities of doing research in applied linguistics 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 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 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 15. Dealing with longitudinal quantitative designs and data analysis 16. Managing researcher dilemma 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 19. Dealing with controversial findings 20. Reporting on politically sensitive issues the case of telling the truth about early L2 instruction 21. Dealing with criticism when publishing qualitative research 22. Representing the self honestly in published research 23. Publishing from a dissertation a book or articles