‘With expertise and erudition, he guides students at measured pace through the process of conducting quantitive, qualitative, and most importantly, mixed-method research.’ Applied Linguistics Journal, July 2010 ‘…a readable, thorough and stimulating introduction to research methods in applied linguistics.’

—Dave Allen, June 2009

Zoltan Dornyei is Professor of Psycholinguistics at the School of English, University of Nottingham. He has published widely on various aspects of second language acquisition and language learning motivation including Motivation, Language Identity and the L2 Self (2009, edited with Ema Ushioda).