Research Methodology in Second-Language Acquisition

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

Book Overview

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 nature of language acquisition data, research design, the relevance of contextualized data collection and interpretation, and the desirability of a particularistic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805814248
• ISBN13: 9780805814248
• Release Date: June 1994
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"