Critical reflections on data in second language acquisition / edited by Aarnes Gudmestad, Amanda Edmonds.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gudmestad, Aarnes, editor.

Edmonds, Amanda, 1979- editor.

Series:

Language learning and language teaching ; 1569-9471 v. 51.

Language learning and language teaching (LL & LT), 1569-9471 ; volume 51

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Second language acquisition--Research.

Second language acquisition.

Physical Description:

viii, 231 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2018]

Summary:

"This edited volume offers critical reflections on an essential component of research method in the field of second language acquisition - data. Scholars working on diverse areas (e.g., pragmatics, corrective feedback, phonology) and approaches (e.g., corpus linguistics, concept-oriented analyses, variationism) have come together to identify challenges researchers face when collecting, coding, and analyzing data and to provide guidance for making advancements regarding these aspects of research method. This volume also showcases three types of critical reflection. One involves building a relevant corpus of published investigation and using that database to identify methodological issues in existing research. Another consists of recoding and reanalyzing published work, before reflecting on the impact that these decisions have on observations made about interlanguage. The third begins with a particular area of or approach to second language acquisition and then offers a critical examination on the challenges that characterize the selected area or approach"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction / Aarnes Gudmestad and Amanda Edmonds

Data collection and analysis in developmental L2 pragmatics research: Discourse completion test, role play, and naturalistic recording / Naoko Taguchi

Data collection in the research on the effectiveness of corrective feedback: A synthetic and critical review / Shaofeng Li

Data analysis and sampling: Methodological issues concerning proficiency in SLA research / Tania Leal

Novel sounds: What L2 phonetic data might be telling us that we do not always hear / Megan Solon

Operationalizing variables: The case of future-time expression in additional-language French / Amanda Edmonds and Aarnes Gudmestad

The potential of publicly shared longitudinal learner corpora in SLA research / Nicole Tracy-Ventura and Amanda Huensch

Concept-oriented analysis: A reflection on one approach to studying interlanguage development / Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig

Naturalistic data in L2 pragmatics research: Challenges and opportunities / Rachel Shively

Conclusion: Data, open science, and methodological reform in second language acquisition research / Emma Marsden and Luke Plonsky.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Critical reflections on data in second language acquisition.

ISBN:

9789027201430

9027201439

9789027201423

9027201420

OCLC:

1035431551