Resumen de From the Associate Editor, MLJ Reviews: Presenting the Special Issue Reviews.
This article presents information on review essays in the special issue Methodology, Epistemology and Ethics in Instructed Second Language Acquisition Research of The Modern Language Journal. The review essays represent an innovative and stimulating approach to the discussion of recent publications that come under the rubric of Theory and Practice. By considering together a set of publications on a particular research paradigm, the essays provide readers with a thoughtful picture of recent books on action research, qualitative research, and quantitative research, respectively, that would not be possible in the traditional way the Reviews section has been structured .The books treated in the review essays were selected for their timeliness and for their significance to researchers in language learning and teaching. Several contributions to this special issue remind us that the idea that research should inform action is both common sense and ethically supported.
