{"title":"Challenges and potential of quasi-experimental studies in cognitive linguistics applied to language teaching and\u0000 learning","authors":"Beatriz Martín-Gascón","doi":"10.1075/rcl.00190.mar","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/rcl.00190.mar","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This review study focuses on the challenges faced when conducting effects-of-instruction research in Applied\u0000 Cognitive Linguistics. It offers an overview of relevant research that has sought to demonstrate the effectiveness of a\u0000 cognitive-based approach to second language (L2) pedagogy and provides illustrations from previous work in L2 Spanish by the\u0000 author and colleagues of some of the factors that can influence findings in quasi-experimental research. More specifically, the\u0000 study addresses some of the difficulties encountered in the design of materials and assessment tests, during the pedagogical\u0000 intervention and the data collection and data analysis phases. These include choice of assessment, test effects, sample size,\u0000 withdrawal, and time-on-task, among others. Along with these methodological issues, a discussion of possible solutions as well as\u0000 pedagogical and methodological implications are discussed.","PeriodicalId":509448,"journal":{"name":"Review of Cognitive Linguistics","volume":"19 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141346286","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}