Oxford Handbooks for Language Teachers provide a source of reference for language teachers, teacher trainers and trainee teachers. Doing Second Language Research puts the reader in a number of different roles in the language learning research process, whether research subject, organizer or reporter as well as data collector and analyst. The book explains the characterisitics of different types of research, its terminology, the logic underlying selection and the typical steps of different models of research design. There are also introductions to some classic research studies.