This volume provides graduate students and experienced researchers with a comprehensive guide to applying qualitative and mixed methods in classroom-based research on second language learning and teaching.

Given the growing concern around the world on the need to combat social exclusion and to improve economic circumstances through access to lifelong learning, this book, divided into two sections, acts as a reference point informing the debate, and also explores the relationships between research, policy and practice.

This book is designed to help students face the ethical, methodological and theoretical challenges and complexities involved in engaging children in rights-based, participatory research.

This book offers a model which can be readily applied to training, assessment of standards, inspections, and research and development. It is based on the latest research and reflects the national drive towards evidence-based standards.