CHALLENGES OF RESEARCH IN THE FIELD OF FIRST LANGUAGE ACQUISITION
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| author | Ilic, Nina |
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| contents | <p>The field of language acquisition primarily addresses the question of how children acquire language. The answer to this question involves examining the complex relationship between language and cognition. The present paper gives an overview of issues that a researcher in this field needs to tackle: methodological, legal-ethical and procedural. First, an overview of methods (analyzing naturalistic data and experimental methods) is given, along with their advantages and disadvantages. If the researcher has decided on conducting an experiment, they need to think of an adequate design and stimuli, which is not an easy task considering the respondents’ age. The researcher should conduct a pilot study before the main experiment, so as to check the validity of stimuli and the experiment length. Another methodological issue is data analysis, which is closely related to ensuring a sufficient number of respondents. If their number is not high, it is impossible to apply quantitative analysis, which could yield significant results. As far as legal-ethical issues are concerned, they involve asking for the institutional approval and obtaining enough parental informed consent forms, which can be a painstaking process. Different procedural challenges (participants’ shyness; lack of attention; noise etc.) are discussed as well, along with possible ways of approaching them. Taking everything into account, it is clear that the researcher in this area must possess both linguistic and psychological knowledge. Therefore, the author suggests guidelines for establishing a better institutional cooperation in the future, which would contribute to the development of this interdisciplinary area in Serbia.</p> |
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| spellingShingle | CHALLENGES OF RESEARCH IN THE FIELD OF FIRST LANGUAGE ACQUISITION Ilic, Nina first language acquisition, psycholinguistics, method, challenges, interdisciplinarity <p>The field of language acquisition primarily addresses the question of how children acquire language. The answer to this question involves examining the complex relationship between language and cognition. The present paper gives an overview of issues that a researcher in this field needs to tackle: methodological, legal-ethical and procedural. First, an overview of methods (analyzing naturalistic data and experimental methods) is given, along with their advantages and disadvantages. If the researcher has decided on conducting an experiment, they need to think of an adequate design and stimuli, which is not an easy task considering the respondents’ age. The researcher should conduct a pilot study before the main experiment, so as to check the validity of stimuli and the experiment length. Another methodological issue is data analysis, which is closely related to ensuring a sufficient number of respondents. If their number is not high, it is impossible to apply quantitative analysis, which could yield significant results. As far as legal-ethical issues are concerned, they involve asking for the institutional approval and obtaining enough parental informed consent forms, which can be a painstaking process. Different procedural challenges (participants’ shyness; lack of attention; noise etc.) are discussed as well, along with possible ways of approaching them. Taking everything into account, it is clear that the researcher in this area must possess both linguistic and psychological knowledge. Therefore, the author suggests guidelines for establishing a better institutional cooperation in the future, which would contribute to the development of this interdisciplinary area in Serbia.</p> |
| title | CHALLENGES OF RESEARCH IN THE FIELD OF FIRST LANGUAGE ACQUISITION |
| topic | first language acquisition, psycholinguistics, method, challenges, interdisciplinarity |
| url | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14975505 |