A dynamic approach to second language development : methods and techniques

✍ Scribed by Marjolyn Verspoor; Kees De Bot; Wander Lowie

• Publisher: John Benjamins Pub. Co
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 224
• Series: Language learning and language teaching, v. 29
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Dynamic systems theory, a general theory of change and development, offers a new way to study first and second language development and requires a new set of tools for analysis of empirical data. After a brief introduction to the theory, this book, co-authored by several leading scholars in the field, concentrates on tools and techniques recently developed to analyze language data from a dynamic perspective. The chapters deal with the general thoughts and reasoning behind coding data, analyzing variability, discovering interacting variables and modeling. The accompanying How to sections give s. Read more...

Content: Researching second language development from a dynamic systems theory perspective / Kees de Bot & Diane Larsen-Freeman --
Dynamic systems theory and a usage-based approach to Second language development / Marjolijn Verspoor & Heike Behrens --
Coding and extracting data / Monika Schmid, Marjolijn Verspoor & Brian MacWhinney --
Variability and DST /Marijn van Dijk, Marjolijn Verspoor & Wander Lowie --
Visualizing interaction between variables / Marjolijn Verspoor & Marijn van Dijk --
Modeling development and change / Wander Lowie, Tal Caspi, Paul van Geert & Henderien Steenbeek.
Abstract:

Dynamic systems theory, a general theory of change and development, offers a new way to study first and second language development and requires a new set of tools for analysis of empirical data. After a brief introduction to the theory, this book focuses on tools and techniques developed to analyze language data from a dynamic perspective. Read more...