Research Methods

Gries, S. Th., & Ellis, N.C. (2015). Statistical measures for Usage-based linguistics. Currents in Language Learning, 2, 228-255. download

Crossley, S., Marsden, E., Ellis, N., Kormos, J., Morgan‐Short, K., Thierry, G. (2020). Introduction of Methods Showcase Articles in Language Learning. Language Learning 70, 5-10. link to online article

Marsden, E., Crossley, C., Ellis, N., Kormos, J., Morgan‐Short, K., Thierry, G. (2019). Inclusion of Research Materials When Submitting an Article to Language Learning. Language Learning 69, 795-801. link to online article

Marsden, E., Morgan-Short, K., Trofimovich, P., & Ellis, N. C. (2018). Introducing Registered Reports at Language Learning: Promoting transparency, replication, and a synthetic ethic in the Language Sciences. Language Learning, 68, 309-320. link to online article

Ellis, N. C. (2017). Cognition, corpora, and computing: Triangulating research in usage-based language learning. Language Learning, 67, S1, 40-65. DOI: 10.1111/lang.12215 download

Ellis, N. C. (2006) Meta-analysis, human cognition, and language learning. In J. Norris and L. Ortega (Eds.)  Synthesizing research on language learning and teaching (pp. 301-322). Amsterdam, John Benjamins. download

Simpson-Vlach, R., & Ellis, N. C. (2010). An Academic Formulas List (AFL).  Applied Linguistics, 31, 487-512.  download article download appendices

Römer, U., Roberson, A., O’Donnell, M. & Ellis, N. C. (2014).  Linking learner corpus and experimental data in studying second language learners’ knowledge of verb-argument constructions.  ICAME Journal, 38, 115-135.  download

Ellis, N. C., Hafeez, K., Martin, K. I., Chen, L., Boland, J., & Sagarra, N. (2014). An eye-tracking study of learned attention in Second Language Acquisition. Applied Psycholinguistics, 35 (3), 547-579. download

Coventry, W., Antón-Méndez, I., Ellis, E., Levison, C., Byrne, B., van Daal, V. & Ellis, N. C.  (2012). The Etiology of Individual Differences in Second Language Acquisition in Australian School Students: A Behaviour-Genetic Study. Language Learning, 62, 880-901. download

‘The Five Graces Group’ (Beckner, C., Blythe, R., Bybee, J., Christiansen, M. H., Croft, W., Ellis, N. C., Holland, J., Ke, J., Larsen-Freeman, D., Schoenemann, T.) (2009). Language is a complex adaptive system. Position paper, Language Learning, 59, Supplement 1, 1-27. download

Ellis, N. C. (2022). Bilingual language cognition as a complex adaptive system. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 1-2. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728922000372

Douglas Fir Group (Atkinson, D., Byrnes, H., Doran, M., Duff, P., Ellis, N., Hall, J. K., Johnson, K., Lantolf, J., Larsen–Freeman, D., Negueruela, E., Norton, B., Ortega, L., Schumann, J., Swain, M., and Tarone, E.) (2016). A transdisciplinary framework for SLA in a multilingual world. Modern Language Journal, 100, 19-47. download

Ortega, L., Cumming, A., & Ellis, N. C (Eds.) (2013). Agendas for Language Learning Research. Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN: 978-1-1185-9070-6. Link to online volume

Ellis, N. C., O’Dochartaigh, C., Hicks, W., Morgan, M., & Laporte, N.  (2001). CRONFA ELECTRONEG O GYMRAEG (CEG: A 1 million word lexical database and frequency count for Welsh. Visit the corpus