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Publication details [#55500]

Compernolle, Rémi A. van and Lawrence Williams. 2011. Metalinguistic explanations and self-reports as triangulation data for interpreting second language sociolinguistic performance. International Journal of Applied Linguistics 21 (1) : 26–50.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language proficiency | metalanguage | second language acquisition | self-monitoring | sociolinguistics

Place, Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell

Journal WWW

www.ingenta.com/journals/browse/bpl/ijal

Annotation

This study argues that sheer performance data are inadequate for assessing how L2 learners observe social and stylistic variation in the studied language. Multiple data sources meanwhile can offer a multidimensional view on sociolinguistic performance.