Well, in spite of Hurricane Sandy and the coyote that I caught drooling at our cat enclosures this morning, this has been a really good autumn. I am well on my way to completing my data analyses, I am almost finished the revisions for my methodology chapter, my paper presentation was accepted for AAAL 2013, and I unexpectedly stumbled onto a couple of happy finds.
First of all, when I was chasing down an interesting article connected to the timing of corrective feedback from Gurzynski-Weiss and Revesz (2012) in September’s Language Learning, I was happy to see my name on the list of the 2011 Language Learning Dissertation Grant recipients.
And if things were not going well enough, (and they were!), Nina brought the brand new (and highly recommended) Routledge Encyclopedia of Second Language Acquisition to our research group meeting, and I was very pleasantly surprised to discover a brief reference to the Jang and Quinn (2006) ACLA/AAAL presentation on mixed methods research.
PAUL GREGORY QUINN 