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Summary
Summary
Dynamic systems theory, a general theory of change and development, offers a new way to study first and second language development and requires a new set of tools for analysis of empirical data. After a brief introduction to the theory, this book, co-authored by several leading scholars in the field, concentrates on tools and techniques recently developed to analyze language data from a dynamic perspective. The chapters deal with the general thoughts and reasoning behind coding data, analyzing variability, discovering interacting variables and modeling. The accompanying How to sections give step-by-step instructions to using macros to speed up the coding, creating a dedicated lexical profile, making min-max graphs, testing for significance in single case studies by running simulations, and modeling. Example files and data sets are available on the accompanying website ( http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/lllt.29.website ). Although the focus is on second language development, the tools are applicable to a wide range of phenomena in applied linguistics.
Table of Contents
| 1 List of How to sections | p. vii |
| 2 Acknowledgements | p. ix |
| 3 Introduction | p. 1 |
| 4 Researching Second Language Development from a Dynamic Systems Theory perspective | p. 5 |
| 5 Dynamic Systems Theory and a usage-based approach to Second Language Development | p. 25 |
| 6 Coding and extracting data | p. 39 |
| 7 Variability and DST | p. 55 |
| 8 Visualizing interactions between variables | p. 85 |
| 9 Modeling development and change | p. 99 |
| 10 Epilogue | p. 123 |
| 11 How to sections | p. 129 |
| 12 References | p. 201 |
| 13 Index | p. 209 |
| 14 Website |
