TY - JOUR
T1 - Judgment and interpretation tasks in second language research
AU - Ionin, Tania
AU - Zyzik, Eve
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 20014 Cambridge University Press.
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - This article provides an overview of recent studies in second language acquisition that use tasks that elicit learners' judgments about the grammaticality of language or learners' interpretation of language. We discuss acceptability judgment tasks, preference tasks, truth-value judgment tasks, and other types of interpretation tasks. For each task type, recent studies that use that task are briefly summarized, with a focus on advantages and disadvantages of the methodology in relation to the study's objectives. A variety of topics related to task administration are covered, including (but not limited to) different types of rating scales; presentation of target sentences in isolation versus in the context of other sentences, stories, and/or pictures; visual versus auditory modality of presentation; and timed versus untimed tasks.
AB - This article provides an overview of recent studies in second language acquisition that use tasks that elicit learners' judgments about the grammaticality of language or learners' interpretation of language. We discuss acceptability judgment tasks, preference tasks, truth-value judgment tasks, and other types of interpretation tasks. For each task type, recent studies that use that task are briefly summarized, with a focus on advantages and disadvantages of the methodology in relation to the study's objectives. A variety of topics related to task administration are covered, including (but not limited to) different types of rating scales; presentation of target sentences in isolation versus in the context of other sentences, stories, and/or pictures; visual versus auditory modality of presentation; and timed versus untimed tasks.
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U2 - 10.1017/S0267190514000026
DO - 10.1017/S0267190514000026
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:84919833526
SN - 0267-1905
VL - 34
SP - 37
EP - 64
JO - Annual Review of Applied Linguistics
JF - Annual Review of Applied Linguistics
ER -