Dr Sigrid Lipka s'lipkaderby'ac'uk

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• Dr Sigrid Lipka s.lipka_at_derby.ac.uk
• Workshop 1
• Critical Reading Activity
• See handout from Module Web page

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• Journal articles
• probably the most important publication that you
  will read when you are doing your own literature
  searches
• important that you know how to use them properly
• read them
• take notes from them
• as efficiently as possible

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• Workshop 1 handout has link to paper by
• Thorn, A.S.C., Gathercole, S. E., Frankish, C.R.
  (2002). Language familiarity effects in
  short-term memory The role of output delay and
  long-term knowledge. The Quarterly Journal of
  Experimental Psychology, 55A (4), 1363-1383.
• research on language-specific differences in how
  
• bilingual participants perform on verbal
  short-term
• memory tasks, and how to explain such
• differences

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• Critical Reading Activity
• Think carefully about each section.
• Read each section and then write down your
  answers to the questions before you go on to the
  next section.
• Your answers should just be brief notes and
  bullet points - not long sentences!

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• Introduction
• What is the authors goal?
• What is the hypothesis or prediction that is
  
• being tested?
• How would I design an experiment to test the
  hypothesis?

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• Method
• Which is the best method - yours or the authors'?
• Does the authors' method test the hypothesis?
• What are the independent and dependent variables
  and what happens in the different conditions if
  there are any?
• From the whole method section, what results would
  you predict?

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• Results
• Are your predicted results the same as the ones
  the authors report?
• How would you interpret the results?
• Can you draw any applications and implications
  from your interpretation?

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• Discussion
• Which interpretation of the results suits the
  data the best?
• Which discussion of the applications and
  implications is the most convincing?