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Chapter 7. Concept-oriented analysis
Abstract
This chapter reviews the basic tenets and goals of concept-oriented analysis, one type of functional analysis that documents meaning-to-form mapping in interlanguage development. It considers the benefits and challenges of an approach that has meaning, or concept, as its central construct, and explores the relation of such an approach to other approaches to research in second language acquisition (SLA) today. The chapter discusses how concepts are selected for investigation, how realizations of those concepts are identified in interlanguage, and how means of expression of those concepts are categorized and coded. The chapter also reflects on the use of the target language in this analysis, which views interlanguage as an independent system, and shows how recent studies have used a variety of resources to compare the balance of linguistic devices used in learner and native-speaker systems. The concept-oriented analysis has recently been used in combination with a variationist approach to SLA, and this is discussed in the final section, along with possible directions for future investigations.
Abstract
This chapter reviews the basic tenets and goals of concept-oriented analysis, one type of functional analysis that documents meaning-to-form mapping in interlanguage development. It considers the benefits and challenges of an approach that has meaning, or concept, as its central construct, and explores the relation of such an approach to other approaches to research in second language acquisition (SLA) today. The chapter discusses how concepts are selected for investigation, how realizations of those concepts are identified in interlanguage, and how means of expression of those concepts are categorized and coded. The chapter also reflects on the use of the target language in this analysis, which views interlanguage as an independent system, and shows how recent studies have used a variety of resources to compare the balance of linguistic devices used in learner and native-speaker systems. The concept-oriented analysis has recently been used in combination with a variationist approach to SLA, and this is discussed in the final section, along with possible directions for future investigations.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents vii
- Acknowledgments ix
- Introduction 1
- Chapter 1. Data collection and analysis in developmental L2 pragmatics research 7
- Chapter 2. Data collection in the research on the effectiveness of corrective feedback 33
- Chapter 3. Data analysis and sampling 63
- Chapter 4. Novel sounds 89
- Chapter 5. Operationalizing variables 125
- Chapter 6. The potential of publicly shared longitudinal learner corpora in SLA research 149
- Chapter 7. Concept-oriented analysis 171
- Chapter 8. Naturalistic data in L2 pragmatics research 197
- Conclusion 219
- Index 229
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents vii
- Acknowledgments ix
- Introduction 1
- Chapter 1. Data collection and analysis in developmental L2 pragmatics research 7
- Chapter 2. Data collection in the research on the effectiveness of corrective feedback 33
- Chapter 3. Data analysis and sampling 63
- Chapter 4. Novel sounds 89
- Chapter 5. Operationalizing variables 125
- Chapter 6. The potential of publicly shared longitudinal learner corpora in SLA research 149
- Chapter 7. Concept-oriented analysis 171
- Chapter 8. Naturalistic data in L2 pragmatics research 197
- Conclusion 219
- Index 229
