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Approaches to second language acquisition
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ISBN: 185359234X 1853592358 9781853592348 Year: 1994 Volume: *3 Publisher: Clevedon Multilingual Matters


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Applying priming methods to L2 learning, teaching and research : insights from psycholinguistics
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ISBN: 9789027213013 9789027213020 9027213011 902721302X 9789027286925 9027286922 9786613051424 1283051427 9781283051422 661305142X Year: 2011 Volume: 30 Publisher: Amsterdam John Benjamins Publishing Company

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The following study uses a bilingual version of the Deese-Roediger-McDermott (DRM) false memory paradigm (Deese 1959; Roediger & McDermott 1995) to investigate conceptual mediation in second language (L2) learners. In this paradigm, participants are exposed to a list of words (e.g. bed, rest, dream, etc.) that are highly associated to a critical lure word that is not presented (e.g. sleep). Later, when asked to recall the words presented, participants will often falsely recall the critical lure that was implicitly generated in memory during encoding. Participants were native English-speaking learners of Spanish (N = 241) with varying proficiency in Spanish. The results suggest that proficiency constrains conceptual mediation. Theoretical and pedagogical implications are discussed.


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Research methods in second language acquisition : a practical guide
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ISBN: 9781444334265 9781444334272 1444334263 1444334271 Year: 2012 Publisher: Chichester ; Malden : Wiley-Blackwell,

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Research Methods in Second Language Acquisition: A Practical Guideis an informative guide to research design and methodology for graduate students and scholars. Each chapter of this volume offers background, step-by-step guidance, and relevant studies to create comprehensive coverage of each method. Includes chapters by expert scholars on an array of topics, including second language writing and reading, meta-analyses, research replication, qualitative data collection and analysis, and more. Includes feature boxes in each chapter highlighting relevant research studies, discussion questions and suggested further readings. Utilizes research methods and tools from varied fields of study including education, linguistics, psychology, and sociology.

Task-based language teaching: a reader
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ISSN: 1877346X ISBN: 9789027207180 9789027207173 9789027290281 9027290288 9027208743 9789027208743 1283051516 9781283051514 9786613051516 6613051519 9027207178 9027207186 Year: 2009 Volume: v. 3 Publisher: Amsterdam Benjamins

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The publication in 1816 of Bopp's Über das Conjugations system can be considered the beginning of a systematic comparison of Indo-European languages, and thus as having led too the development of the study of language as a science, distinct from philology. The Analytical Comparison (1820) represents not merely a translation into English, as has been claimed in the literature, but a significant advance in theoretical clarity and methodological soundness. This reprint is accompanied by a bio-bibliographical account of Bopp by J. D. Guigniaut, an introduction to Analytical C


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Processing perspectives on task performance
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ISBN: 9027270414 9789027270412 9789027207258 9027207259 9789027207265 9027207267 Year: 2014 Volume: 5 Publisher: Amsterdam

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This chapter reports on a study of video-based narrative retellings, in which the major variables are degree of structure and the nature of the processing conditions under which the retellings were done. The two variables were manipulated in a 4 × 4 design. Four Mr. Bean video clips were used, with different levels of structure, ranging from no structure to a clear, well organised problem-solution structure. In addition to a control group, there were two online processing conditions (opportunity to pause, and provision of a summary before the task), and one offline Watch-then-Tell condition. The results of the study show that two of the online conditions had some mitigating influence, that is, the opportunity to pause the video, and the provision of a summary before the video was seen. More structured narratives and less pressured processing conditions produced more accurate and more complex performances. The same influences lead to less end-of-clause pausing but more reformulations. The results are discussed in terms of the Levelt model of speaking, applied to second language performance.

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