Research Methods in Generative Second Language Acquisition

Roumyana Slabakova is Professor and Chair of Applied Linguistics at the University of Southampton, UK. In addition, she is Adjunct Research Professor at UiT The Arctic University of Norway. She is a Founding Co-Editor of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism and is currently Co-Editor of Second Language Research. Tania Leal is Assistant Professor of Spanish Linguistics at the University of Arizona, USA. In addition to this role, she serves as a faculty member in the Graduate Interdisciplinary Program in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching (SLAT). She is Associate Editor for Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism and contributes to the editorial board of Second Language Research. Laura Dominguez is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Southampton, UK. She is a member of the editorial boards of Second Language Research, the Journal of the European Second Language Association and the International Journal of Spanish as a Heritage Language. She was also a board member of Studies in Second Language Acquisition.

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Part I: Methodological Preliminaries and Issues

Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapter 2. Research Issues

Chapter 3. The Life Cycle of an Experimental Design

Chapter 4. Designing Experiments in GenSLA

Part II: Methods Typically Used in GenSLA

Chapter 5. Acceptability Tasks

Chapter 6. Interpretation Tasks

Chapter 7. Speech Tasks

Chapter 8. Latency-Based Measures

Chapter 9. Eye Tracking

Chapter 10. Electrophysiological Methods: Event-Related Potentials

Chapter 11. Production Tasks

Chapter 12. Learner Language Corpora

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Index