Review of The Routledge Handbook of Research Methods in Applied Linguistics

Applied linguistics is a broad interdisciplinary area that studies language and language related phenomena in social contexts (Paltridge & Phakiti, 2015; Kaplan, 2010). With advances in technology and multilingual worlds, there is a significant shift in applied linguistics research. Access to the internet and large-scale data such as corpus could be the most fundamental reason for changes in applied linguistics research. Consequently, this area requires new research methods to deal with these situations.

Jim McKinley and Heath Rose have contributed with well-known scholars such as Brian Paltridge, Ron Martinez, John Rogers, and Jenifer Larson-Hall to develop a new recourse to cover these changes in applied linguistics research...