ABSTRACT
One reason for using different methods in the same study can be to provide triangulation of your results. The use of multiple methods is only one form of triangulation, but is perhaps the most commonly used. If you arrive at the same results with both of your methods, then it gives increased confidence that the results you have found are genuine, and reflect something real about the topic under study, rather than an artefact of the method chosen. The different methods used could be any, but often involve one qualitative and one quantitative method. What do you do, then, if you design two studies using different methodologies to look at the same question, and they apparently produce quite different results? This chapter is a study of just such a case. The topic under investigation was the effects of second language acquisition on attitudes and stereotypes, and involved asking learners and nonlearners of English and German a batch of questions about their views of Britain and Germany.
