interview data.

So I've decided to consider my first three interviews with learners as a pilot, because I realized it's a lot more difficult to get the data that I want through asking questions and picture description.

I've transcribed the first three interview sessions-1 from each level (beg, int, adv). And now I'm going through the transcripts looking for some of the 'default' type errors that I was hoping to find.

After my review, I think I will end up changing/modifying my interview questions, and try to get at something deeper. I realized, based on learner responses, that most of my questions only elicit limited responses--1 sentence. I guess I thought that learners would automatically keep talking beyond this 'guide', but I'm having to push/interrogate a lot, so I need to create some better, more open-ended questions.

Either way, I expect to have a decent report/update when our class next meets! :)

I hope things are going well for everyone else!

Some methodological considerations...

After reviewing some more of the literature, including some newer stuff, I've realized that to be able to properly speak to psycholinguistic research and theoretical linguistic stuff, I've got to include an oral production component in the study.

I realized that if the linguistically-minded people were talking about morphological variability in oral production, then I couldn't simply use written production to speak to that evidence-wise.

The thing now is that I am considering using:
1. oral fill-in-blanks/cloze passage (which would focus on features analysed in lexical decision, and written tasks)
2. elicit narrative (which would just get at what they produce naturally)
3. both (which would give me a lot of data to work with!)

Thoughts?