Pitfalls of production data analysis for investigating L2 cognitive mechanism: An ontological realism perspective.
This article addresses the pitfalls of performance analysis in investigating cognitive processing during second language (L2) learning. The problems that we discuss in this paper are twofold: (1) Assuming psychological variables to be ontological entities without meeting the criteria for ontological...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Second Language Studies Vol. 6; no. 1; pp. 95 - 119 |
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John Benjamins Publishing Co.
2023
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