22.3997, Qs: Guidance for Research on Syntactic Development

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Subject: 22.3997, Qs: Guidance for Research on Syntactic Development

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Date: 07-Oct-2011
From: Ubaid Khan [ubaidkhan81 at gmail.com]
Subject: Guidance for Research on Syntactic Development


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Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 21:31:41
From: Ubaid Khan [ubaidkhan81 at gmail.com]
Subject: Guidance for Research on Syntactic Development

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I want to conduct a research on the topic ''Impact of social class on 
cognitive development of syntax among learners of English as FL''. I 
need your guidance on the following areas:-

i. How to delimit my sample in a way that the factor affecting L2 
development (other than social class)such as ethnicity or L1 etc. can 
be controlled and only the impact of social class on development of 
Syntax could be checked?

ii. Whether in Research Methodology I should say that my research is 
''descriptive cor-relational ex-post-facto research''? (Since it would 
describe the correlation of social class and syntactic development, and 
ex-post-facto because it would measure cognitive development of 
syntax emerging as a result of input already given in form of classroom 
teaching of a certain period before the time of data collection) 

iii. Whether it would be appropriate to develop social class scale to 
measure the social class of participants and correlate the scale with the 
scale of syntactic development?

I will highly appreciate your kind guidance. 

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science
                     Sociolinguistics
                     Syntax





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