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Attention to Form and Meaning Revisited
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Leow, Ronald P.; Hsieh, Hui-Chen; Moreno, Nina – Language Learning, 2008
The present study revisited the issue of simultaneous attention to form and meaning from a methodological perspective that addressed several potential methodological issues of previous research in this strand of inquiry. Seventy-two second-semester-level participants were randomly assigned to one of five experimental groups, including a control,…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Reading Comprehension, Protocol Analysis, Multiple Choice Tests
Toward Operationalizing the Process of Attention in SLA: Evidence for Tomlin and Villa's (1994) Fine-Grained Analysis of Attention.
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Leow, Ronald P. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1998
In a study attention in second-language learning, four groups of beginning learners of Spanish (n=83 total) completed one of four crossword puzzles designed to isolate the effects of alertness, orientation, and detection. Results lend strong empirical support to one theory of attention, while indicating short-term effects of detection. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Attention, Inferences, Introductory Courses
To Think Aloud or Not to Think Aloud: The Issue of Reactivity in SLA Research Methodology
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Leow, Ronald P.; Morgan-Short, Kara – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2004
Recently, several studies in SLA (e.g., for discourse, Alanen, 1995; Leow, 2001b; Rott, 1999; for problem-solving tasks, Leow, 1998a, 1998b, 2000, 2001a; Rosa & Leow, in press a, in press b; Rosa & O'Neill, 1999) have addressed the operationalization and measurement of attention (and awareness) in their research methodology. Studies have employed…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Research Methodology, Language Research, Attention
Reactivity and Type of Verbal Report in SLA Research Methodology: Expanding the Scope of Investigation
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Bowles, Melissa A.; Leow, Ronald P. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2005
The present study addresses the reactivity of two types of verbal protocols in SLA research. It expands on the work of Leow and Morgan-Short (2004), who found nonmetalinguistic verbalization during a second-language reading task to be nonreactive for beginning learners' text comprehension, intake, and production of the targeted morphological form.…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Metalinguistics, Syntax, Research Methodology