Suggested readings and resources

RECOMMENDED TEXTS
Wallace, M and Wray, A. (2006) Critical Reading and Writing for Postgraduates. London: Sage.
Bonnett, A. (2008) How to argue. Harlow: Pearson.
Wellington, J. and Szczerbinski, M. (2007) Research Methods for the Social Sciences. London:
Continuum.
Johnson, K. (2008) Quantitative Methods in Linguistics. Oxford: Blackwell.
Li Wei and Moyer, M. (2008) The Blackwell Guide to Research Methods in Bilingualism and
Multilingualism. Oxford: Blackwell.

Additional training support for Information Technology can be accessed through the self-enrolled
Blackboard course BBK_ECDL SELF STUDY (BBK_ECDL_2007) This includes an introduction to
usingcomputers, word processing, spreadsheets, databases, IT for presentations, electronic
communciations and the internet.

Research Methods Reading Suggestions: Specific Topics

Research Methods Reading Suggestions: Specific Topics
Allwright, D. and K. Bailey. 1991. Focus on the Language Classroom: an introduction to classroom
research for language teachers. Cambridge: CUP.
Allwright, D. 2003. 'Exploratory Practice: rethinking practitioner research in language teaching.'
Language Teaching Research, 7, 2:113-141.
Bell, P., Staines, P. and Mitchell, J. 2001. Evaluating, Doing and Writing Research in Psychology.
London, Sage.
Burns, T. and Sinfield, S. 2008. Essential Study Skills: The complete guide to success at university.
London, Sage.
Biber, D., S. Conrad, and R. Reppen. (1998). Corpus linguistics: Investigating Language Structure and
use. Cambridge: CUP.
Cohen, L. and C. Manion. 1994 (4th edition). Research Methods in Education. London: Routledge.
Dörnyei, Z. 2003.Questionnaires in Second-Language Research: Construction, Administration and
Processing. Erlbaum.
Davis, K.A. (1995) Qualitative theory and methods in applied linguistics research. TESOL Quarterly, 29
(3), 427-454.
Drew, P and Heritage, J. (2006) Conversation analysis. London: Sage.
Faerch, C. and G. Kasper (eds.) 1987 Introspection in Second Language Research. Clevedon:
Multilingual Matters
Gillham, B. 2000a. Developing a Questionnaire. London: Continuum.
Gillham, B. 2000b. The Research Interview. London: Continuum.
Glesne, C. (1999) Becoming Qualitative researchers: an introduction. 2nd edition. New York:
Longman.
Hart, C. 1998. Doing a Literature Review. London, Sage.
Holliday, A. 2002. Doing and Writing Qualitative Research. Sage.
Hopkins, D. 1993. A Teacher’s Guide to Action Research. Buckingham: Open University Press.
Johnson, K. 2008. Quantitative Methods in Linguistics. Blackwell, Oxford.
Kennedy, G.D. 1998. An Introduction to Corpus Linguistics. London: Longman.
Kvale, S. 1996. InterViews: an introduction to qualitative research interviewing. Thousand Oaks, CA:
Sage.
Lazaraton, A. 1995. ‘Qualitative Research in Applied Linguistics: A Progress Report’. TESOL
Quarterly. 79,3.
Lindlof, T.R. and Taylor, B.C. (2002) Qualitative communication research method. London: Sage.
McEnery, A.M. and A. Wilson. 1996. Corpus Linguistics. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
McNiff, J. 1988. Action Research: Principles and Practice. London: Routledge.
Mehan, H. (1997) 'Ethnography’. In Bilingual Education: Current Perspectives. Social Science. Centre
for Applied Linguistics: 73-89.
Mitchell, R., B. Parkinson, and R. Johnstone. 1981. The Foreign Language Classroom: An
Observational Study. Stirling: University of Stirling Education Department.
Porte, G.K. (2002) Appraising research in second language learning: a practical approach to critical
analysis of quantitative research. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Rasinger, S. M. 2008. Quantitative Research in Linguistics. Continuum, London.
Rietveld, T. and van Hout, R. (2005) Statistics in language research: analysis of variance.
Rubin, H. & Rubin, I. 1995. Qualitative Interviewing: the Art of Hearing Data. Thousand Oaks, CA:
Sage.
Sinclair, J.M. 1991. Corpus, Concordance, Collocation. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Spradley, J.1979. The Ethnographic Interview. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston.
Spradley, J.1980. Participant Observation. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston.
Stubbs, M. 1996. Text and corpus analysis: computer-assisted studies of language and culture.
Oxford: Blackwell
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The Psycholinguistics of Second Language Acquisition and Bilingualism 2010-2011

TERM 2
Thursdays 6 - 7.30 pm
Prof. Jean-Marc Dewaele 
Schedule
Jan 13: Introduction: Psycholinguistics
Jan 20: Speech Production: from conception to articulation in L1 & L2
Jan 27:  Language, thought and perception of bilinguals
Feb 3: Language and meaning in context
Feb 10: Grammatical processing in second language production 
Feb 17:  READING WEEK—NO LECTURE
Feb 24: The mental lexicon of bilinguals
+++ => check out on Friday 25/2 from 5 to 7.30 pm: International workshop of the European
Second Language Association: free for BBK students!
March 3: The effect of planning on L2 production (Prof. Peter Skehan)
March 10: Code-switching (Prof. Li Wei)
March 17: Emotions and multilingualism
Reading list
Cook, V. & Bassetti, B (2010). Language and bilingual cognition. Psychology Press.
Dewaele, J.-M. (2010). Emotions in multiple languages. Palgrave-Macmillan.
Grosjean, F. (2008). Studying bilinguals. Oxford University Press.
Levelt, W. (1989). Speaking: From intention to articulation. MIT Press.
Li Wei (2007). Dimensions of bilingualism. The bilingualism reader. Routledge.
Pavlenko, A. (2009). (ed.) The bilingual mental lexicon: Interdisciplinary approaches. Multilingual
Matters.
Skehan, P. (1998). A Cognitive Approach to Language Learning. Oxford University Press.
Steinberg, D. (1993). Introduction to psycholinguistics. Longman.