Research methodology in second-language acquisition / edited by Elaine E. Tarone, Susan M. Gass, Andrew D. Cohen

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

-- The competence-performance issue in second-language acquisition theory : a debate / Fred R. Eckman -- The subset principle in second-language acquisition / Gerald P. Berent -- Anecdote or evidence? Evaluating support for hypotheses concerning the development of tense and aspect / Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig -- Constructs and measurement in parameter models of second-language acquisition / L. Kirk Hagen -- Toward an ethnomethodological respecification of second-language acquisition studies / Numa P. Markee -- Research methodology in context-based second-language research / Dan Douglas, Larry Selinker -- The role of language tests in the construction and validation of second-language acquisition theories / Elana Shohamy

-- Researching the production of second-language speech acts / Andrew D. Cohen, Elite Olshtain -- Interlanguage variation and the quantitative paradigm : past tense marking in Chinese-English / Robert Bayley -- Preferences versus grammaticality judgments : some methodological issues concerning the governing category parameter in second-language acquisition / Usha Lakshmanan, Keiko Teranishi -- Local and long-distance anaphora in second-language acquisition / Fred R. Eckman -- Elicited imitation and grammaticality judgment tasks : what they measure and how they relate to each other / Edward Munnich, Suzanne Flynn, Gita Martohardjono -- Elicited imitation as a measure of second-language competence / Robert Bley-Vroman, Craig Chaudron -- Two heads may be better than one : mental activity in second-language grammaticality judgments / Nancy Goss, Zhang Ying-Hua, James P. Latolf -- Investigating the validity and reliability of native speaker and second-language learner judgments about sentences / Ron Cowan, Yukiko Abe Hatasa -- The realibility of second-language grammaticality judgments / Susan M. Gass -- A summary : research approaches in studying second-language acquisition or "if the shoe fits..." / Elaine E. Tarone