Replication Research in Applied Linguistics

by Porte, Graeme

• ISBN13: 9781107671522
• ISBN10: 1107671523
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-07-23
• Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr

Summary

The only book available dedicated to the theory and practice of replication research in Second Language Acquisition and Applied Linguistics. A replication study repeats a previous study to discover if its findings are reliable and/or can be generalised to other circumstances. This edited volume brings together a number of experts who argue in favour of a more central role for replication research in Second Language Acquisition and Applied Linguistics. The book provides a theoretical argument to support this view, as well as practical examples and model replication studies. It includes advice on how best to set up and execute replication research, and how to write up the findings for presentation to a journal. A paperback version is available separately.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Theoretical Background

Why (or why not), when and how to replicate research

Significance tests and the generalizability of research results: a case for replication

Replication, meta-analysis, and generalizability

Replication Studies in Graduate Programs

Practical methods for integrating replications into linguistic graduate programs

Conducting replication studies: lessons from a graduate programme

Replication Studies in Practice

Replication in published applied linguistics research: an historial perspective

Writing up a replication report

Negotiated interaction in the L2 classroom: an approximate replication study

The effect of task-induced involvement on L2 vocabulary acquisition: an approximate replication of Hulstijn and Laufer (2001)

Glossary

Index

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