ABSTRACT
Any classroom research presents difficulties, but those difficulties and the stages that prove to be most problematic may be related to the research paradigms within which one is working. Because applied linguistics is an interdisciplinary field, the research paradigms have been varied, with even the subset of second language classroom research spanning a range of research types. Furthermore, classroom research has also drawn simultaneously from several paradigms, often making it difficult to classify, especially as many researchers do not explicitly state their paradigm. In this chapter, different types of classroom research are discussed in order to address the points at which the various types of research encounter different problems.
