Elicitative Psycholinguistic Tasks for EFL/ESL Research: A Literature Review
الموضوعات : نشریه مطالعات آموزش زبان انگلیسی
Sedigheh Golmohammadi
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(Department of Language Teaching and Translation Studies, Rahman Institute for Higher Education, Ramsar, Iran.)
الکلمات المفتاحية: Psycholinguistics, TBLT, elicitation, SLA Methodology,
ملخص المقالة :
Research in the fields of applied linguistics including language teaching and translation studies has for long been controversial at least in terms of methodology and instrumentation in particular. For instance, Gass & Mackey (2000-2009) elaborated on stimulated recall methodology, or Ellis & Barkhuizen (2005) discussed their instrumentations and methodologies for analyzing learners’ language. The impetus of the current report came from their focus on the methods and instruments in SLA research plus the tasks mentioned in Komatsu (1994) collection of research studies in cognitive psychology. Attempts were made in this article to present a list of applicable psycholinguistic tasks used in SLA. Each task underwent elaboration, and was clarified by mentioning at least one study in which the task had been used. The result of this review may have two benefits: first, many of such tasks are still practical i.e. they can still be used by researchers in linguistic and psycholinguistic fields. Second, the list of psycholinguistic tasks gives a sort of familiarity to those readers or researchers who may be at their beginning way of making their studies and conducting their experiments.
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