Jason
2017
Emphasis on standardized tests, fading novelty, lack of motivation, and increasingly regimented school structures contribute to a decline in engagement as kids progress through school.
Herbert W. Seliger and Elana Shohamy’s "Second Language Research Methods" provides a foundational framework for applied linguistics, outlining key research parameters including synthetic/analytic approaches and heuristic/deductive objectives. The text guides researchers through a five-step, systematic process for designing, executing, and reporting studies in second language acquisition. For a detailed overview of the methodologies, see the Oxford University Press guide Oxford University Press www.mchip.net Second Language Research Methods Herbert W Seliger
Before Seliger and Shohamy (1985/1989), the SLA researcher’s toolkit was scattered. Behaviorists wanted hard data; Chomskyan linguists wanted intuitions about competence; and teachers wanted classroom applicability.
