Roever / Phakiti Quantitative Methods for Second Language Research

A Problem-Solving Approach
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-1-135-08003-7
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 290 Seiten

Quantitative Methods for Second Language Research introduces the approaches to and techniques for quantitative data analysis in second language research (SLR), with a primary focus on second language learning and assessment research. It takes a conceptual, problem-solving approach, emphasizing the understanding of statistical theory and its application to research problems and pays less attention to the mathematical side of statistical analysis. A range of common statistical analysis techniques that can be employed in SLR, presented and illustrated through applications of the IBM Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) program, are presented and discussed. These include tools for descriptive analysis (e.g. means and percentages) as well as inferential analysis (e.g. correlational analysis, t-tests, and analysis of variance (ANOVA)). It provides conceptual explanations of quantitative methods through the use of examples, cases and published studies in the field. Additionally, a companion website to the book hosts review exercises and answer keys for each chapter, SPSS files, and a manual. Practical and lucid, this book is the ideal resource for data analysis for graduate students and researchers in applied linguistics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Roever, Carsten

Phakiti, Aek

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1 Quantification

Chapter 2 Introduction to IBM SPSS

Chapter 3 Descriptive Statistics

Chapter 4 Descriptive Statistics in SPSS

Chapter 5 Correlational Analysis

Chapter 6 Basics of Inferential Statistics

Chapter 7 T-tests

Chapter 8 Mann-Whitney U and Wilcoxon Signed-rank Tests

Chapter 9 One-way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA)

Chapter 10 One-way Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA)

Chapter 11 Repeated-measures ANOVA

Chapter 12 Two-way Mixed-design ANOVA

Chapter 13 Chi-square Tests

Chapter 14 Multiple Regression

Chapter 15 Reliability Analysis

Epilogue

References

Key Research Terms in Quantitative Methods

Über Autor(innen)

Carsten Roever is Associate Professor in Applied Linguistics in the School of Languages and Linguistics at the University of Melbourne, Australia.

Aek Phakiti is Associate Professor in TESOL in the Sydney School of Education and Social Work at the University of Sydney, Australia.