Chapter published in:
Heritage Languages: A language contact approachSuzanne Aalberse, Ad Backus and Pieter Muysken
[Studies in Bilingualism 58] 2019
► pp. 87–109
Chapter 5Methods for collecting heritage language data
Article outline
- 5.1Introduction
- 5.2Criteria for evaluating a particular method: Validity
- 5.3Overview of methods used
- 5.3.1Spoken data
- Participant selection
- Research design and procedure
- Data handling: Storage, transcription and annotation
- 5.3.2Written documents
- ‘Ethnic’ newspapers and other written documents
- Chat sites and social media
- Observations, e.g. of linguistic landscapes
- 5.3.3Survey data and questionnaires
- 5.3.4Experimental data
- 5.3.5Judgment tasks
- 5.3.1Spoken data
- 5.4Summary and conclusion: Which method to choose?
- What am I going to study?
- Who am I going to study?
- How much data do I need?