Second Language Acquisition Research Series
About the Book Series
The Second Language Acquisition Research series presents and explores issues bearing directly on theory construction and/or research methods in the study of second language acquisition. Its titles (both authored and edited volumes) provide thorough and timely overviews of high-interest topics, and include key discussions of existing research findings and their implications. A special emphasis of the series is reflected in the monographs dealing with specific data collection methods or instruments. Each of these monographs addresses the kinds of research questions for which the method/instrument is best suited, offers extended description of its use, and outlines the problems associated with its use. The volumes in this series will be invaluable to students and scholars alike, and perfect for use in courses on research methodology and in individual research.
NOTE FROM THE SERIES EDITORS ON THE LOSS OF KIM GEESLIN, FEBRUARY 2023
It is with heavy hearts that we acknowledge the death of our dear colleague, friend, and co-editor, Kimberly L. Geeslin. Kim served as co-editor of the Second Language Acquisition Research series from 2020 until her untimely passing in January 2023. Kim had a special talent for balancing rigor with kindness and warmth, and she will be remembered as much for her extraordinary intelligence and immense scholarly impact as for the positivity, encouragement, and support she extended to all in our academic community.
In addition to her role at Routledge, Kim was Vice Provost for Faculty and Academic Affairs and Professor within the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Indiana University. Kim was an internationally-recognized scholar, specializing in research at the intersection of second language acquisition and sociolinguistics. She is author and editor of nine books and over 85 article-length publications. At Indiana University, she also won numerous teaching awards and chaired more than 20 doctoral dissertations.
Kim’s loss is felt deeply in ways both professional and personal. She has impacted so many through her work, her mentorship, and her kindness.
Kim is survived by her husband of 30 years, Sean McGuire, and her teenage children, Logan and Hayden.
Using Priming Methods in Second Language Research
1st Edition
By Kim McDonough, Pavel Trofimovich
October 20, 2008
Using Priming Methods in Second Language Research is an accessible introduction to the use of auditory, semantic, and syntactic priming methods for second language (L2) processing and acquisition research. It provides a guide for the use, design, and implementation of priming tasks and an overview ...
Case Study Research in Applied Linguistics
1st Edition
By Patricia Duff, Patricia Duff
October 04, 2007
Case studies of individual language learners are a valuable means of illustrating issues connected with learning, using, and in some cases, losing another language. Yet, even though increasing numbers of graduate students and scholars conduct research using case studies or mix quantitative and ...
Data Elicitation for Second and Foreign Language Research
1st Edition
By Susan M. Gass, Alison Mackey
February 22, 2007
This timely reference guide is specifically directed toward the needs of second language researchers, who can expect to gain a clearer understanding of which techniques may be most appropriate and fruitful in given research domains. Data Elicitation for Second and Foreign Language Research is a ...
Problems in Second Language Acquisition
1st Edition
By Michael H. Long, Michael H. Long
June 28, 2006
Second language acquisition has an identity problem. It is a young field struggling to emerge from the parent fields of education and applied linguistics. In his new book, Problems in Second Language Acquisition, Mike Long proposes a way to help second language acquisition develop a ...
The Psychology of the Language Learner: Individual Differences in Second Language Acquisition
1st Edition
By Zoltán Dörnyei
November 30, 2005
Research results over the past decades have consistently demonstrated that a key reason why many second language learners fail--while some learners do better with less effort--lies in various learner attributes such as personality traits, motivation, or language aptitude. In psychology, these ...
Interlanguage Pragmatics: Exploring Institutional Talk
1st Edition
Edited
By Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig, Beverly S. Hartford
May 04, 2005
This volume brings conversational analysis into the study of second language pragmatics as an analytic paradigm. A well-regarded team of researchers addresses a difficult area for the interlanguage pragmatics research community--the balance between experimental method and the use of conversational ...
Second Language Acquisition Processes in the Classroom: Learning Japanese
1st Edition
By Amy Snyder Ohta
January 01, 2001
This book is the first study to examine how interactional style develops within the walls of a foreign language classroom in the first two years of language study. Results show learners to be highly sensitive to pragmatic information and that learners can move toward an appropriate interactional ...
Conversation Analysis
1st Edition
By Numa Markee
February 01, 2000
Conversation analysis is a methodology that originated over three decades ago as a sociolinguistic approach but has since been adopted by scholars in a variety of other areas, including applied linguistics and communication. It is of great utility in second language acquisition research for its ...
Referential Communication Tasks
1st Edition
By George Yule
April 01, 1997
Referential communication is the term given to communicative acts, generally spoken, in which some kind of information is exchanged between one speaker and another. This information exchange is typically dependent on successful acts of reference, whereby entities (human and non-human) are ...
Second Language Classroom Research: Issues and Opportunities
1st Edition
Edited
By Jacquelyn Schachter, Susan M. Gass
April 01, 1996
In an attempt to fill the gap left by the many published studies on classroom second language research, this book explores a variety of human, social, and political issues involved in the carrying out of such studies. Many journals are chock-full of the results of classroom research, with evidence ...
Research Methodology in Second-Language Acquisition
1st Edition
Edited
By Elaine E. Tarone, Susan M. Gass, Andrew D. Cohen
June 01, 1994
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 ...