目錄
Preface to the third edition
Why we wrote this book
Who the book is for
What the book does
What the book doesn't do
The second edition
The third edition
Acknowledgments
International Phonetic Alphabet
1 Introduction: starting on the right foot
Choosing an area
Getting organized
Using resources
Being a researcher
Theory-only projects
Setting up data-based research
Being streetwise: keeping on the right side of your assessor
Part I Areas of Study and Project Ideas
2 Psycholinguistics
Textbooks and major journals
Central themes and project ideas
How psycholinguists conceptualize language
How we understand language
Psycholinguistics and grammatical theory
Lexical and structural ambiguity
How we produce spoken language
How we produce writing
Language and thought
3 First-language acquisition and
development
Approaches to research
Terminology
Textbooks and major journals
The CHILDES database
Things to think about
Central themes and project ideas
Longitudinal case studies
Prelinguistic development
Over- and under-extension: lexical and semantic development
Children's morphology
Development of phonology and intonation
Comprehension of complex grammatical structures
Children's metalinguistic awareness
Colour terms
Carer language (or child-directed speech)
Conversational development
Sources of variation in child language
Literacy development
Developmental problems
Later language acquisition
4 Second-language acquisition
Terminology
Textbooks and major journals
Things to think about
Central themes and project ideas
Developmental sequences and the process of acquisition
Comparison of L1 and L2 acquisition
Language-learning targets
Motivation
Grammar-based and communication-based teaching
Vocabulary acquisition
Different concepts expressed in different languages
The learner's approach and experience
Interlanguage, error analysis, and contrastive analysis
Language assessment and testing
Bilinguals, multilinguals, and polyglots
Language teaching policies
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Part II Techniques for Collecting Data
Part III Tools for Data Analysis
Part IV Presenting Your Work
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