KOMOROWSKA, Hanna2012-06-122012-06-121990Glottodidactica vol. 21, 1993, pp. 5-19http://hdl.handle.net/10593/2731Part 1 of the article contains a discussion of quantitative research projects described as structuralistic, deductive, statistical and objective. Main lines of criticism directed against quantitative research projects are also presented. Part 2 contains characteristic of qualitative research projects described as holistic, inductive, descriptive and subjective. Theoretical affiliation of qualitative research projects to ethnometh-odology, ethnography, phenomenology is also analyzed. Part 3 deals with possibilities of applying qualitative research assumptions to classroom research in general and to research on foreign language classrooms in particular.en-USArtykuł