Research Methods in Language Acquisition: Principles, Procedures, and Practices - Couverture rigide

Lust, Barbara; Blume, Maria

 
9783110415223: Research Methods in Language Acquisition: Principles, Procedures, and Practices
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ISBN 10 : 3110415224 ISBN 13 : 9783110415223
Editeur : American Psychological Association, 2016

Synopsis

Language acquisition research is challenging--the intricate behavioral and cognitive foundations of speech are difficult to measure objectively. The audible components of speech, however, are quantifiable and thus provide crucial data. This practical guide synthesizes the authors' decades of experience into a comprehensive set of tools that will allow students and early career researchers in the field to design and conduct rigorous studies that produce reliable and valid speech data and interpretations.

The authors thoroughly review specific techniques for obtaining qualitative and quantitative speech data, including how to tailor the testing environments for optimal results. They explore observational tasks for collecting natural speech and experimental tasks for eliciting specific types of speech. Language comprehension tasks are also reviewed so researchers can study participants' interpretations of speech and conceptualizations of grammar. Most tasks are oriented towards children, but special considerations for infants are also reviewed, as well as multilingual children.

Chapters also provide strategies for transcribing and coding raw speech data into reliable data sets that can be scientifically analyzed. Furthermore, they investigate the intricacies of interpretation so that researchers can make empirically sound inferences from their data and avoid common pitfalls that can lead to unscientific conclusions.

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À propos de l?auteur

Barbara Lust, Cornell University, USA; Maria Blume, University of Texas at El Paso, USA.

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Éditeur
American Psychological Association
Date d'édition
2016
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3110415224
ISBN 13 
9783110415223
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
313
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