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JHHSU Research
Design and Statistics for Applied Linguistics 2004 Course
Description and Objectives This
course is designed primarily to familiarize you with the basic concepts of
research design and statistics and to enable you to conduct researches
with quantitative methods and to analyze data by hand and also by using a
personal computer. Class
Procedures The
class will be conducted mostly in the form of lectures and discussions,
and times will be set aside for familiarizing you with spss.
You are expected to do all the assignments and to work out statistical
problems by hand first and then on computer. As a requirement for this
course, you are to conduct a quantitative study on a topic of your own
choice and to hand in the report at the end of the semester. There will be
no midterm or final exams. Textbook
and Reference Book Hatch-Farhady.
Research
Design and Statistics for Applied Linguistics.
Taipei: The Crane Publishing Company. (Textbook)
Woods-Fletcher-Hughes. Statistics in Language Studies. Cambridge
University Press, 1993. (Reference
book) Course
Topics [1]
Introduction and orientation: research and statistics [2] How
to construct research designs? [3] Simple
numerical computations and displaying and describing of data [4]
Introduction to spss: how to enter and save data, how to create new
variables, how to do calculation, and how to make various graphs [5] Standardized
scores:
z scores and
t scores [6] Probability
and hypothesis testing [7] Distribution
of means [8] Distribution
of means and differences between means [9] Comparing
two means: t-tests and one-way anova [10] Factorial
designs and anova [11] Chi-Square [12] Implicational
scaling [13] Correlational
analysis [14] Linear
Regression ¡@ |
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