Methodological Synthesis in Quantitative L2 Research: A Review of Reviews and a Case Study of Exploratory Factor Analysis

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A methodological synthesis and meta-analysis of judgment tasks in second language research (2020, background): “…research (Marsden et al., 2018a); quantitative analyses and reporting practices (Plonsky, 2013, 2014); study designs (Marsden and Torgerson, 2012; Plonsky and Gonulal, 2015); multiple regression (Plonsky and Ghanbar, 2018; Plonsky and Oswald, 2017); and structural equation modeling (Winke, 2014).”
L2 SELVES, EMOTIONS, AND MOTIVATED BEHAVIORS (2016, background): “The scree plot and eigenvalues greater than one were the initial criteria examined to determine the number of components (see Appendix) (Plonsky & Gonulal, 2015).”
Task-Based Learner Production: A Substantive and Methodological Review (2016, background): “Plonsky and Gonulal (2015) reviewed the use of factor analysis in applied linguistics.”
Future selves, enjoyment and anxiety as predictors of L2 writing achievement (2021, background): “The results of Principal Component Analysis (PCA) using the Direct Oblimin rotation method supported the validity of the two scales.”
L2 grit: Passion and perseverance for second-language learning (2020, background): “of significant components (see Plonsky & Gonulal, 2015).”