Butler & Huang's book is one of the first to focus on second language (L2) development research methods and techniques specifically targeted at children of primary and pre-primary years.

Yuko Goto Butler is Professor of Educational Linguistics in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania. She is also Director of the Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) Program. Her research interests include language assessment and second and foreign language learning among children.

Becky H. Huang is Professor in the Department of Teaching and Learning at Ohio State University. Her research focuses on two interrelated areas that address the goal of promoting language and education outcomes for bilingual students: language/literacy development and assessment of bilingual students.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction: Researching Child Second Language Development (Becky H. Huang & Yuko Goto Butler)

Chapter 2 Observation and ethnographic methods for researching young learners (Peter Sayer & Susan Ataei)

Chapter 3 Surveys and questionnaires with young language learners (Emiko Hirosawa & W. L. Quint Oga-Baldwin)

Chapter 4 Using interviews with children in L2 research (Annamaria Pinter)

Chapter 5 Verbal Reports as a Window for Understanding Mental Processes among Young Learners (Yuko Goto Butler)

Chapter 6 Research methods for evaluating second language speech production (Becky H. Huang & Rica Ramírez)

Chapter 7 Receptive methods in child bilingualism and second language acquisition (Silvina Montrul, Alexandra Morales-Reyes & Begoña Arechabaleta Regulez)

Chapter 8 Eye-tracking methods in child SLA research (Paola E. Dussias & Karen Miller)

Chapter 9 Brain imaging methods (Nia Nickerson & Ioulia Kovelman)

Chapter 10 Research methods for L2 children with special needs (Li Sheng & Sharon R. Hollenbach)

Chapter 11 Considerations for Research Methods to Study Child Second Language Development (Yuko Goto Butler)