First of all we would like to refer to a notion of research itself. What is research? As for me, I keep to the definition of N.T. Zacharias (2012) who claims that research is “what I’m doing when I don’t know what I’m doing” (p.5). The way how we will arrange the process of investigation in order to analyze our activities determines different types of research.
Speaking about second language education we could distinguish two basic types of research: quantitative and qualitative. According to A. Mackey and S.M. Gass (2005) qualitative research is “based on descriptive
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