What does it mean for research to use speaking as a data collection tool?: 5. Verbal protocols

Swain, Merrill

doi:10.1075/lllt.12.07swa

In:Inference and Generalizability in Applied Linguistics: Multiple perspectives
Edited by Micheline Chalhoub-Deville, Carol A. Chapelle and Patricia A. Duff
[Language Learning & Language Teaching 12] 2006
► pp. 97–113

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5. Verbal protocols

What does it mean for research to use speaking as a data collection tool?

Merrill Swain

Published online: 24 March 2006

https://doi.org/10.1075/lllt.12.07swa

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