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Nicanor Legarte Guinto; Brian D. Villaverde; Amiel Jansen Demetrial; Aurelio Teodoro Maguyon III – AILA Review, 2024
Recent studies on language and migration have attempted to address the social injustices stemming from global disparities in wealth and opportunities. However, there's a risk of researchers unintentionally reinforcing traditional power dynamics, positioning themselves in power while reducing participants to mere data sources. Focusing on migrants…
Descriptors: Language Research, Researchers, Social Justice, Immigration
Gabber, Shirley; Vondiziano, Gregory – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted not only how linguistic fieldwork is conducted but also how university-level field methods courses are taught. In this paper, we detail the methodology utilized during the 2020-21 academic year by the University of Hawai?i at Manoa Department of Linguistics for the entirely remote Field Methods sequence…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Language Research, Documentation, Applied Linguistics
Safar, Josefina – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2021
In this paper, I discuss methodological and ethical issues that arose in the process of documenting lexical variation in Yucatec Maya Sign Languages (YMSLs). YMSLs are indigenous sign languages used by deaf and hearing people in Yucatec Maya villages with a high incidence of deafness in the peninsula of Yucatán, Mexico. The documentation of rural…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Language Research, American Indian Languages, Language Variation
Birgit Hellwig; Dagmar Jung – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2020
Language documentation efforts are most often concerned with the adult language and usually do not include the language used by and with children. Essential parts of the natural linguistic behaviour of communities thus remain undocumented, and a growing body of literature explores what language documentation, language maintenance, and language…
Descriptors: Documentation, Language Research, Language Maintenance, Child Language
Tagliamonte, Sali A. – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2017
The goal of the paper is to demonstrate how sociolinguistic research can be applied to endangered language documentation field linguistics. It first provides an overview of the techniques and practices of sociolinguistic fieldwork and the ensuring corpus compilation methods. The discussion is framed with examples from research projects focused on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sociolinguistics, Language Research, Dialects
Ross Perlin; Daniel Kaufman; Mark Turin; Maya Daurio; Sienna Craig; Jason Lampel – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2021
Communities around the world have distinctive ways of representing language use across space and territory. The approach to and method of mapping languages that began with nineteenth-century European dialectology and colonial boundary making is one such way. Though practiced by relatively few linguists today, language mapping has developed…
Descriptors: Metropolitan Areas, Documentation, Language Maintenance, Language Research
Mansfield, John; Stanford, James – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2017
Documenting sociolinguistic variation in lesser-studied languages presents methodological challenges, but also offers important research opportunities. In this paper we examine three key methodological challenges commonly faced by researchers who are outsiders to the community. We then present practical solutions for successful variationist…
Descriptors: Sociolinguistics, Language Variation, Indigenous Populations, Language Research
Gablasova, Dana; Brezina, Vaclav; McEnery, Tony – Language Learning, 2017
This article contributes to the debate about the appropriate use of corpus data in language learning research. It focuses on frequencies of linguistic features in language use and their comparison across corpora. The majority of corpus-based second language acquisition studies employ a comparative design in which either one or more second language…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, English, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Huang, Li; Lambert, James – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2020
This paper reports on a promising methodology for multilingualism studies that was trialled at the National Institute of Education (NIE) on the campus of Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, in 2018. The methodology named the Aural-Oral Transect (AOT) is a systematic, easy-to-implement, unbiased way of collecting quantitative data on…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Oral Language, Speech Communication, Research Methodology
Bieswanger, Markus – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2015
In 2005, Klaus P. Schneider published a fascinating article with the title "'No problem, you're welcome, anytime': Responding to thanks in Ireland, England, and the U.S.A." Adopting the then emerging and now established framework of variational pragmatics, Schneider's pioneering paper presents the results of a study on differences…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Pragmatics, English, Task Analysis
Raymond, Chase Wesley – Language Awareness, 2015
Researchers from a variety of academic disciplines have begun to incorporate Web-based methodologies in their research agendas. Nonetheless, many of those interested in language ideologies--i.e. speakers' beliefs about language, as well as their rationalisation of those beliefs-- vehemently stand by site-specific ethnographic approaches. Rather…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Language Research, Ethnography, Research Methodology
Daland, Robert – Journal of Child Language, 2013
What are the sources of variation in the input, and how much do they matter for language acquisition? This study examines frequency variation in manner-of-articulation classes in child and adult input. The null hypothesis is that segmental frequency distributions of language varieties are unigram (modelable by stationary, ergodic processes), and…
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Acquisition, Linguistic Input, English
Vallejos, Rosa – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2014
This paper highlights the role of speech community members on a series of interconnected projects to document, study and maintain Kokama, a deeply endangered language from the Peruvian Amazon. The remaining fluent speakers of the language are mostly older than 60 years of age, are spread out across various small villages, and speak the language in…
Descriptors: Language Research, Language Maintenance, Research Methodology, Foreign Countries
Preston, Dennis R. – AILA Review, 2011
This paper deals with data gathering and interpretation in folk linguistics, but, as the parenthetical title suggests, it is not limited to any prejudged notion of what approaches or techniques might be most relevant to the wide variety of concerns encompassed by applied linguistics. In this article, the author conceives of folk linguistics…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Applied Linguistics, Folk Culture, Language Variation
Hambly, Helen; Wren, Yvonne; McLeod, Sharynne; Roulstone, Sue – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2013
Background: Children who are bilingual and have speech sound disorder are likely to be under-referred, possibly due to confusion about typical speech acquisition in bilingual children. Aims: To investigate what is known about the impact of bilingualism on children's acquisition of speech in English to facilitate the identification and treatment of…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Speech Communication, Speech Impairments, Language Acquisition