Less Frequently Used Research Methodologies in Applied Linguistics

This concluding chapter is organized into four sections. The first section, the introduction, discusses the purpose of compiling the volume. In the second section, I highlight some of the challenges faced by the researchers when they used each methodology and the insights they gained. Thirdly, I will provide a synthesis of the main ethical issues discussed in the chapters and will attempt to relate them to the current discussions of ethics in AL research. Finally, I will elaborate on how these m