Reference no: EM133362363
Assignment Guidelines
For this assignment, everyone will write a summary of the journal article by DeKeyser (2000).
Please note that you should not use these headings to separate your paper into distinct sections, as the draft should read as one complete essay. Rather, use these guiding questions to help structure and organize your paper.
Main research questions:
? What hypotheses are being tested? (Explain the Fundamental Difference Hypothesis and explain what predictions DeKeyser argues that it makes.)
? What are the predictions of these hypotheses?
Summary of linguistic structures/variables under investigation:
? What linguistic structure is being examined in this study? (e.g., past tense -ed, pronunciation of vowels, subject verb agreement, etc.)
Participants:
? Briefly describe population being tested.
Methods:
? How was data collected? What tests were administered? Give selective examples of the stimuli. (examples don't count towards page limits)
Results:
? Summarize the most important results of the study. You should report the overall relationship between AoA and GJT scores, and how aptitude scores influence the results.
Conclusions:
? Which hypothesis is supported by the results of the study? Which data support this conclusion?
Open question:
? Identify at least one open question that remains. What do we still not know, or what do you want to know more about? You should be sure to motivate your open question by explaining its relevance and importance based on the study/results.