Research Methods in Generative Second Language Acquisition

✍ Scribed by Roumyana Slabakova, Tania Leal, Laura Domínguez

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2024
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 229
• Series: Second Language Acquisition Research Series
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This timely text provides a comprehensive overview of the research methods used by the Generative Second Language Acquisition framework.

The authors lay out the history and state of the art in the field, explain the theoretical underpinnings of this work, and offer practical hands-on guidance for developing, conducting and understanding studies related to L2 grammatical competence―using a rich array of techniques and advancing key insights into the rationale and circumstantial pros and cons of each method.

With useful features in a consistent chapter structure, including diverse case studies and discussion questions, the book will be an invaluable resource to students and researchers of SLA, applied linguistics, theoretical linguistics, education, and related areas.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Part I: Methodological Preliminaries and Issues
1 Introduction
2 Research Issues
3 The Life Cycle of an Experimental Design
4 Designing Experiments in GenSLA
Part II: Methods Typically Used in GenSLA
5 Acceptability Tasks
6 Interpretation Tasks
7 Speech Tasks
8 Latency-based Measures
9 Eye-tracking
10 Event-Related Potentials
11 Production Tasks
12 Learner Corpora
References
Author Index
Subject Index