Computer-assisted SLA research

Two types of CASLR
?Gather evidence about the effects of instructional conditions of learning
?Assessment; to make inferences about aspects of learners?language ability and learning (vocabulary, metacognitive strategies)

Investigating conditions for SLA
Doughty’s characterization of the three facets of her computer
Design: the CASLR tasks intended for students?language learning
Description: the process of computer-assisted data description replies on a computer program to assist in identifying, tabulating, and organizing SLA data which were gathered through a computer-assisted research task or through other means.
Discovery: refers to the use of computer for statistical analysis of data (Davidson, 1996).

CASLA for investigating instructional conditions;
Dekeyser (1995) investigated whether explicit-deductive or implicit-inductive learning worked better for simple categorical grammar rules and for linguistic prototypes.
Dekeyser (1997) investigated the hypothesis that e...