This course is intended to improve your understanding of the research process, to familiarize you with a variety of research methods commonly used in the field of TESOL and Applied Linguistics, and to gain hands-on experience in research. The course will focus on a variety of research models, including survey research, discourse analysis, case study, correlation analysis, legal policy research, and corpus research. The main task of the quarter involves conducting an original research project in small teams. Much of the course time will be spent on workshops to help you carry out the project: developing a literature review, writing a conference proposal, organizing your methodology, designing data collection instruments, analyzing data, and writing a research report. In addition, you will read and critique selected research in second language acquisition and become more sophisticated "consumers" of research.