This book is dedicated to the theory and practice of replication research in Second Language Acquisition and Applied Linguistics. A replication study repeats a previous study to discover if its findings are reliable and/or can be generalised to other circumstances. This edited volume brings together a number of experts who argue in favour of a more central role for replication research in Second Language Acquisition and Applied Linguistics. The book provides a theoretical argument to support this view, as well as practical examples and model replication studies. It includes advice on how best to set up and execute replication research, and how to write up the findings for presentation to a journal. A hardback version is available separately.
1. Introduction Graeme Porte; Section 1. Theoretical Background: 1. Why (or why not), when and how to replicate research Alison Mackey; 2. Significance tests and the generalizability of research results: a case for replication Hossein Nassaji; 3. Replication, meta-analysis, and generalizability Luke Plonsky; Section 2. Replication Studies in Graduate Programs: 4. Practical methods for integrating replications into linguistic graduate programs Rebekha Abbuhl; 5. Conducting replication studies: lessons from a graduate programme Tess Fitzpatrick; Section 3. Replication Studies in Practice; 6. Replication in published applied linguistics research: an historial perspective Charlene Polio: 7. Writing up a replication report James Dean Brown; 8. Negotiated interaction in the L2 classroom: an approximate replication study Johannes Eckerth; 9. The effect of task-induced involvement on L2 vocabulary acquisition: an approximate replication of Hulstijn and Laufer (2001) Susanne Rott; 10. Concluding remarks: The way forward Graeme Porte; Index.
