How to Avoid the Comparative Fallacy during Data Analysis: A Review of Doughty and Varela (1998) and Mackey (1999)
The problem of the comparative fallacy, i.e., assessing the L2 learner against the native speaker in second language studies, was first addressed twenty years ago by Bley-Vroman (1983). In a critical review of the framework proposed by Tarone, Frauenfelder, and Selinker (1976) to study the issue of...
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Columbia University Libraries
2004-05-01
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Series: | Studies in Applied Linguistics & TESOL |
Online Access: | https://journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/SALT/article/view/1611 |