Kathy Conklin - Eye-Tracking: A Guide for Applied Linguistics Research

Eye-Tracking

Eye-tracking is quickly becoming a valuable tool in applied linguistics research as it provides a real-time, direct measure of cognitive processing effort. This book provides a straightforward introduction to the technology and how it might be used in language research. With a strong focus on the practicalities of designing eye-tracking studies that achieve the standard of other well-established experimental techniques, it provides valuable information about building and designing studies, touching on common challenges and problems, as well as solutions. Importantly, the book looks at the use of eye-tracking in a wide variety of applied contexts including reading, listening and multimodal input, writing, testing, corpus linguistics, translation, stylistics and computer-mediated communication. Each chapter finishes with a simple checklist to help researchers use eye-tracking in a wide variety of language studies. Discussion is grounded in concrete examples, which will allow users coming to the technology for the first time to gain the knowledge and confidence to use it to produce high-quality research.

Kathy Conklin is an associate professor in psycholinguistics at the University of Nottingham. She has expertise in the use of eye-tracking to understand processing in a first and a second language.

Ana Pellicer-Snchez is a senior lecturer in applied linguistics and TESOL at the UCL Institute of Education. Her research centres on the teaching and learning of vocabulary in a second and foreign language and makes use of eye-tracking.

Gareth Carrol is a lecturer in psycholinguistics and a researcher in figurative and formulaic language at the University of Birmingham. His work focuses on idioms and utilises psycholinguistic methods, principally eye-tracking, to investigate questions relating to processing, learning and use in first and second language speakers.

Eye-Tracking

A Guide for Applied Linguistics Research

Kathy Conklin

University of Nottingham

Ana Pellicer-Snchez

UCL Institute of Education

Gareth Carrol

University of Birmingham

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Names: Conklin, Kathryn author. | Pellicer-Snchez, Ana author. | Carrol, Gareth author.

Title: Eye-tracking : a guide for applied linguistics research / Kathryn Conklin, University of Nottingham ; Ana Pellicer-Snchez, UCL Institute of Education; Gareth Carrol, University of Birmingham.

Description: Cambridge ; New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2018. | Includes bibliographical references.

Identifiers: LCCN 2017043873 | ISBN 9781108415354

Subjects: LCSH: Applied linguistics Research.

Classification: LCC P129 .C625 2018 | DDC 418.0072 dc23

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