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...

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Published in:	Journal of Second Language Studies Vol. 6; no. 1; pp. 95 - 119
Main Authors:	Fukuta, Junya, Nishimura, Yoshito, Tamura, Yu
Format:	Article
Published:	John Benjamins Publishing Co. 2023
Subjects:	Second language acquisition Data analysis Latent variables Cognitive analysis Realism Cognitive ability
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