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Downloadable articles

Lecture notes and readings.

Course introduction

Philosophical basis of qualitative & quantitative research; theoretical paradigms

• Lecture notes #1: Intro to paradigms
• Morishima, Y. (2008). The effect of syntactic complexity on sentence processing in second language. Proceedings of the 6th International Conference of Cognitive Science, 124-127.
• Moyer, M. G. (2000). Negotiating agreement and disagreement in Spanish-English bilingual conversations with no. International Journal of Bilingualism, 4, 485-504.

Research ethics

• Lecture notes: Research ethics
• Stanford prison experiment: official website
• Standford prison expt., Wikipedia article
• Milgram electroshock expt., Wikipedia
• Iowa stuttering experiment [and legal outcome]

Research ethics: writing & source use

• Plagiarism exercise
• Brief guide to paraphrasing & summarizing
• Brief guide to paraphrasing & summarizing #2
• APA citations

Data collection methods

Extra, optional readings

• Chaudron, K. (2003). Data collection in SLA research. In Doughty, C. J. & Long, M. H. (Eds.), The Handbook of Second Language Acquisition,571-618. Oxford, U.K.: Blackwell Publishing. [optional]
  (Note: The quality is okay for viewing on a monitor, but is not so good when printed out, and it's rather long.)
• Davis, K. A. (1995). Qualitative theory and methods in applied linguistics research. TESOL Quarterly, 29,427-453. [opt.]
• Chapelle, C. A., & Duff, P. A. (2003). Some guidelines for conducting quantitative and qualitative research in TESOL. TESOL Quarterly, 37,157-178. [opt.]
• Kaplan (1966/2001) Cultural thought patterns in inter-cultural education [reprint of initial article on contrastive rhetoric]
• Granger & Tyson (1996) Connector usage in the English essay writing of native and non-native EFL speakers of English. World Englishes, 15, 17-27.

Qualitative research

• Lecture notes: Intro to qualitative research
• Moyer, M. G. (2000). Negotiating agreement and disagreement in Spanish-English bilingual conversations with no. International Journal of Bilingualism, 4, 485-504. [same paper as in intro section]
• He, A. W. (2004). CA for SLA: Arguments from the Chinese Language Classroom. Modern Language Journal, 88, 568-582. [read first half]
• Wurr (2003). . Reading in a second language
• Petrić (2003). Contrastive rhetoric in the classroom: A case study.
• Lecture notes: Corpus studies

Quantitative research and statistics concepts

• Experimental and quantitative design basics
• Intro to statistics concepts

Quantitative research articles

• Bent, T., Bradlow, A. R. and Smith, B. L. (2007) . Segmental errors in different word positions and their effects on intelligibility of non-native speech: All's well that begins well. In Munro, M. and Bohn, O.-S. (Eds.), Language Experience in Second Language Speech Learning: In honor of James Emil Flege. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Pp. 331-347.
• McClelland, J. L., Fiez, J. A., & McCandliss, B. D. (2002) Teaching the /r/–/l/ discrimination to Japanese adults: behavioral and neural aspects. Physiology & Behavior, 77,) 657– 662.