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New Methods and Data in Second Language Learning Research

第二语言学习研究的新方法和数据

基本信息

批准号：
ES/S013679/1
负责人：
Tony McEnery
金额：
$ 4.74万
依托单位：
Lancaster University
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2019
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2019 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FS013679%2F1
关键词：
New Methods Data Second Language

项目摘要

This project will hold a series of workshops focused on fostering interdisciplinarity in the study of second language acquisition. The workshops will be jointly organised by Lancaster University and the University of Cambridge in the UK and by Kobe University and Tokyo University of Foreign Studies in Japan.Language learning is a socially, culturally and economically important activity. In itself it represents a significant industry - the UK language teaching industry alone was estimated to be worth £17.5 billion to the UK economy in 2011 - the global market in 2017 was worth $6.3 trillion US dollars. Yet language learning, and the study of how to understand and promote it, is a very challenging and complex process to investigate. It is engaged with from different perspectives by many disciplines, including psychology, linguistics and neuroscience, all of which bring relevant perspectives to bear on the investigation. This means that the study of second language acquisition is both intrinsically and procedurally complex. It is intrinsically complex given that the object of inquiry itself - language - is exceptionally complex. That complexity is compounded by i.) the necessity to acquire different domains of language use to form a fully functioning system of usage and ii.) individual learner characteristics such as native language, type of instruction, and motivation. Yet while the investigation of a complex phenomenon like language acquisition can significantly benefit from insights, tools, and methods from many disciplines, it is still relatively rare to find studies that combine multiple approaches.In part that is undoubtedly because it is procedurally difficult - coordinating an approach to the study of second language acquisition across a range of disciplines is so complex that until recently this has not been done systematically or at notable scale. In addition, we believe that minimal exchange between relevant disciplines has contributed to this issue.In this context it is unsurprising to note that the conceptual and empirical progress that has been achieved in second language acquisition research has been fuelled by an increasing range of methods and approaches from a range of disciplines. For example, experimental approaches, arising from psychology, using artificial or natural languages, have made it possible to investigate how changes across exposure conditions such as input frequency, instruction type, or prior knowledge affect learning in rigorously controlled environments. From linguistics, the construction of learner corpora, large bodies of attested learner language, are growing in size and task types covered, with increasingly rich annotation supporting detailed analyses employing sophisticated statistical methods. These are now being deployed in combination with other methods, including EEG experiments. What we need to do now is to better integrate such innovations to capitalise upon studies which are showing such promise by doing so.This grant will allow researchers working in corpus linguistics, psycholinguistics and second language research in two countries to come together to realise the benefit that better interdisciplinary working can bring to the study of second language acquisition. In doing so the researchers will outline a road map of potential work on second language acquisition that should happen in this interdisciplinary space, outline the relevant current context in the UK and Japan and identify gaps and opportunities that, if engaged with, would materially improve our understanding of how second languages are learned. The meetings that this grant will fund will allow the researchers to both plan out a world-leading research agenda that might be funded by a future UK/Japan joint research funding call and to facilitate the networking that is a necessary precondition to allow the best teams to be constructed to deliver that research agenda.

该项目将举办一系列研讨会，重点是促进第二语言习得研究的跨学科性。研讨会将由英国兰开斯特大学和剑桥大学以及日本神户大学和东京外国语大学联合举办。语言学习是一项重要的社会、文化和经济活动。就其本身而言，它代表了一个重要的行业——2011年，仅英国的语言教学行业就为英国经济贡献了175亿英镑的价值——2017年的全球市场价值为6.3万亿美元。然而，语言学习，以及如何理解和促进它的研究，是一个非常具有挑战性和复杂的过程。它由许多学科从不同的角度参与，包括心理学、语言学和神经科学，所有这些都为调查带来了相关的观点。这意味着第二语言习得的研究在本质上和程序上都是复杂的。它本质上是复杂的，因为探究的对象本身——语言——是异常复杂的。这种复杂性由于以下因素而更加复杂：1)必须掌握不同的语言使用领域，以形成一个功能齐全的使用系统；2)学习者的个人特征，如母语、教学类型和动机。然而，尽管像语言习得这样的复杂现象的研究可以从许多学科的见解、工具和方法中受益匪浅，但结合多种方法的研究仍然相对罕见。在某种程度上，这无疑是因为它在程序上是困难的——协调跨一系列学科的第二语言习得研究方法是如此复杂，以至于直到最近还没有系统地或显著地进行过这项研究。此外，我们认为相关学科之间的交流很少也导致了这一问题。在这种背景下，毫不奇怪，第二语言习得研究在概念和经验方面取得的进展是由来自一系列学科的越来越多的方法和途径推动的。例如，来自心理学的实验方法，使用人工或自然语言，使得研究在严格控制的环境中，输入频率、指令类型或先验知识等暴露条件的变化如何影响学习成为可能。从语言学的角度来看，学习者语料库的构建，即大量经过验证的学习者语言，在规模和涵盖的任务类型上都在不断增长，越来越丰富的注释支持使用复杂的统计方法进行详细分析。这些方法现在正在与其他方法结合使用，包括脑电图实验。我们现在需要做的是更好地整合这些创新，以利用那些通过这样做显示出这种前景的研究。这项资助将使两国从事语料库语言学、心理语言学和第二语言研究的研究人员能够走到一起，认识到更好的跨学科工作可以为第二语言习得研究带来的好处。在此过程中，研究人员将概述在这个跨学科领域中应该发生的第二语言习得潜在工作的路线图，概述英国和日本的相关当前背景，并确定差距和机会，如果参与其中，将极大地提高我们对第二语言学习方式的理解。该基金将资助的会议将使研究人员能够规划出一个世界领先的研究议程，该议程可能由未来的英国/日本联合研究基金呼吁资助，并促进网络连接，这是建立最佳团队以实现该研究议程的必要先决条件。