LINGUIST List 22.3997 Wed Oct 12 2011 Qs: Guidance for Research on Syntactic Development Editor for this issue: Zac Smith <zaclinguistlist.org> We'd like to remind readers that the responses to queries are usually best posted to the individual asking the question. That individual is then strongly encouraged to post a summary to the list. This policy was instituted to help control the huge volume of mail on LINGUIST; so we would appreciate your cooperating with it whenever it seems appropriate. In addition to posting a summary, we'd like to remind people that it is usually a good idea to personally thank those individuals who have taken the trouble to respond to the query. To post to LINGUIST, use our convenient web form at http://linguistlist.org/LL/posttolinguist.cfm. Directory         1.     Ubaid Khan , Guidance for Research on Syntactic Development Message 1: Guidance for Research on Syntactic Development Date: 07-Oct-2011 From: Ubaid Khan <ubaidkhan81gmail.com> Subject: Guidance for Research on Syntactic Development E-mail this message to a friend I want to conduct a research on the topic ''Impact of social class on cognitive development of syntax among learners of English as FL''. I need your guidance on the following areas:- i. How to delimit my sample in a way that the factor affecting L2 development (other than social class)such as ethnicity or L1 etc. can be controlled and only the impact of social class on development of Syntax could be checked? ii. Whether in Research Methodology I should say that my research is ''descriptive cor-relational ex-post-facto research''? (Since it would describe the correlation of social class and syntactic development, and ex-post-facto because it would measure cognitive development of syntax emerging as a result of input already given in form of classroom teaching of a certain period before the time of data collection) iii. Whether it would be appropriate to develop social class scale to measure the social class of participants and correlate the scale with the scale of syntactic development? I will highly appreciate your kind guidance. Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science                             Sociolinguistics                             Syntax Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 12-Oct-2011       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.