Research Methods in Second Language Psycholinguistics

This text provides students and researchers with the means to understand and use current methods in psycholinguistics as they are applied to second language learners. Research Methods in Second Language Psycholinguistics is an essential resource for anyone interested in conducting second language research using psycholinguistic methods.

Jill Jegerski is Assistant Professor of Spanish and SLATE (Second Language Acquisition and Teacher Education) in the Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Bill VanPatten is Professor of Spanish, Second Language Studies, and Cognitive Science at Michigan State University.

Chapter 1: The Psycholinguistics of SLA. Chapter 2: Self-paced reading. Chapter 3: Self-paced listening. Chapter 4: Eye-tracking with text. Chapter 5: Visual world eye-tracking. Chapter 6: Event-related potentials (ERPs). Chapter 7: fMRI. Chapter 8: Lexical decision tasks. Chapter 9: Cross-modal priming with sentences. Chapter 10: On psycholinguistic methods.