Chapter 5
A methodology for studying dynamic variation
Article outline
- 5.1Introduction
- 5.2A context of L2 acquisition
- 5.3Individual participants as variable L2 processers
- 5.4Spoken, task-based communication over time
- 5.4.1Longitudinal data
- 5.4.2Task-based data
- 5.4.3Spoken data
- 5.5Measuring dynamic variation in development
- 5.5.1Measuring developmental stages
- 5.5.2Measuring trailers, scouts, and variational options
- Emergence: Developmental problems, trailers, and scouts
- Probability: Variational options
- 5.5.3Measuring developmental style
- Emergence and implicational scaling
- 5.5.4Measuring free variation
- 5.6Conclusion
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