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Second Language Acquisition Research Series

Series Editor: Susan M. Gass, Alison Mackey

The Second Language Acquisition Research series presents and explores issues bearing directly on theory construction and/or research methods in the study of second language acquisition. Its titles (both authored and edited volumes) provide thorough and timely overviews of high-interest topics, and include key discussions of existing research findings and their implications. A special emphasis of the series is reflected in the monographs dealing with specific data collection methods or instruments. Each of these monographs addresses the kinds of research questions for which the method/instrument is best suited, offers extended description of its use, and outlines the problems associated with its use. The volumes in this series will be invaluable to students and scholars alike, and perfect for use in courses on research methodology and in individual research.

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21-29 of 29 results in Second Language Acquisition Research Series
  1. Conversation Analysis

    By Numa Markee

    Series: Second Language Acquisition Research Series

    Conversation analysis is a methodology that originated over three decades ago as a sociolinguistic approach but has since been adopted by scholars in a variety of other areas, including applied linguistics and communication. It is of great utility in second language acquisition research for its...

    Published March 13th 2000 by Psychology Press

  2. Conversation Analysis

    By Numa Markee

    Series: Second Language Acquisition Research Series

    Conversation analysis is a methodology that originated over three decades ago as a sociolinguistic approach but has since been adopted by scholars in a variety of other areas, including applied linguistics and communication. It is of great utility in second language acquisition research for its...

    Published January 31st 2000 by Routledge

  3. Stimulated Recall Methodology in Second Language Research

    By Susan M. Gass, Alison Mackey

    Series: Second Language Acquisition Research Series

    The methodology of introspection, and especially of stimulated recall, is gaining increasing popularity in second language research. This book provides a "how-to" guide for researchers considering using this technique, contextualized within a history of the procedure and a discussion of its...

    Published January 31st 2000 by Routledge

  4. Stimulated Recall Methodology in Second Language Research

    By Susan M. Gass, Alison Mackey

    Series: Second Language Acquisition Research Series

    The methodology of introspection, and especially of stimulated recall, is gaining increasing popularity in second language research. This book provides a "how-to" guide for researchers considering using this technique, contextualized within a history of the procedure and a discussion of its...

    Published January 31st 2000 by Psychology Press

  5. Second Language Acquisition and the Critical Period Hypothesis

    Edited by David Birdsong

    Series: Second Language Acquisition Research Series

    In language learning, the rule of thumb is: the earlier the better. Children exposed to language from birth are uniformly successful in first language acquisition (L1A), whereas those deprived of contact with language during childhood are pathologically deficient. In second language acquisition (...

    Published February 11th 1999 by Routledge

  6. Second Language Acquisition and the Critical Period Hypothesis

    Edited by David Birdsong

    Series: Second Language Acquisition Research Series

    In language learning, the rule of thumb is: the earlier the better. Children exposed to language from birth are uniformly successful in first language acquisition (L1A), whereas those deprived of contact with language during childhood are pathologically deficient. In second language acquisition (...

    Published December 31st 1998 by Routledge

  7. Referential Communication Tasks

    By George Yule

    Series: Second Language Acquisition Research Series

    Referential communication is the term given to communicative acts, generally spoken, in which some kind of information is exchanged between one speaker and another. This information exchange is typically dependent on successful acts of reference, whereby entities (human and non-human) are...

    Published March 31st 1997 by Routledge

  8. Second Language Classroom Research

    Issues and Opportunities

    Edited by Jacquelyn Schachter, Susan M. Gass

    Series: Second Language Acquisition Research Series

    In an attempt to fill the gap left by the many published studies on classroom second language research, this book explores a variety of human, social, and political issues involved in the carrying out of such studies. Many journals are chock-full of the results of classroom research, with evidence...

    Published March 31st 1996 by Routledge

  9. Research Methodology in Second-Language Acquisition

    Edited by Elaine E. Tarone, Susan M. Gass, Andrew D. Cohen

    Series: Second Language Acquisition Research Series

    This volume addresses salient theoretical issues concerning the validity of research methods in second-language acquisition, and provides critical analysis of contextualized versus sentence-level production approaches. The contributors present their views of competence versus performance, the...

    Published May 31st 1994 by Routledge

Forthcoming Books

  1. Referential Communication Tasks
    By George Yule
    To Be Published September 29th 2013
  2. Second Language Classroom Research: Issues and Opportunities
    Edited by Jacquelyn Schachter, Susan M. Gass
    To Be Published September 29th 2013
  3. Peer Interaction and Second Language Learning
    By Jenefer Philp, Rebecca Adams, Noriko Iwashita
    To Be Published October 24th 2013
  4. Narrative Inquiry in Language Teaching and Learning Research
    By Gary Barkhuizen, Phil Benson, Alice Chik
    To Be Published November 17th 2013
  5. Investigating Implicit and Explicit Language Learning
    By Patrick Rebuschat
    To Be Published February 28th 2014

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