Research Methods in Language Acquisition : Principles, Procedures, and Practices.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I Fundamentals of Language Acquisition Research -- 1 The Challenge of Studying Language -- 2 Preparing to Work With Children, Schools, and Families -- 3 Creating the Data I: Working in Teams, Basic Data Collection, Data Sharing, and Data Management -- II Experimental and Observational Methods in Language Acquisition Research -- 4 Studying Language Acquisition Through Collecting Speech -- 5 Introduction to Experimental Methods: Design and Analysis -- 6 Experimental Tasks for Generating Language Production Data -- 7 Experimental Tasks for Generating Language Comprehension Data -- 8 The Grammaticality Judgment Task -- III Managing and Interpreting Speech Data -- 9 Creating the Data II: Begin Data Processing -- 10 Creating the Data III: Preparing for Data Analysis -- 11 Interpreting the Data: Scientific Inference -- IV Special Considerations in Language Acquisition Research -- 12 Assessing Multilingual Acquisition -- 13 Introduction to Infant Testing Methods in Language Acquisition Research -- 14 Conclusions and Proceeding to the Future -- Appendix A Transcription Symbols -- Appendix B The International Phonetic Alphabet -- Appendix C Outline for Preparation of Schematic Research Proposal -- Suggested Readings -- References -- Index -- About the Authors.

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