By L. Woodrow
With expanding strain on lecturers and graduate scholars to put up in peer reviewed journals, this publication bargains a much-needed consultant to writing approximately and publishing quantitative study in utilized linguistics. With annotated examples and priceless assets, this ebook should be quintessential to graduate scholars and professional researchers alike.
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Relying too much on sources so authorial voice is not present. 5 Guidelines for writing about reliability, validity and ethics 1. Include information about reliability of instrument used in study and what the reliability means. 2. Include reliability for each instrument subscale. 3. In a graduate text provide an explanation of reliability and validity with reference to research literature. 4. Refer to how participants were recruited ethically. Summary This chapter has discussed the general issues in reliability, validity, ethics that need to be considered in quantitative research.
Random sampling is very difficult to achieve in applied linguistics settings as the participants are often in language classes. For this reason quasi-experiments are more common. A quasi-experiment is the same as an experiment except for the random sample. Once the variables have been established, it is necessary to decide on how these variables will be operationalised or measured. So, for example if English proficiency is the focus of the study, care needs to be taken on how this is measured. The researcher might believe that 14 General Considerations in Writing about Quantitative Research English proficiency is made up of expertise in grammar, vocabulary, coherence, fluency and pronunciation.
Sunderland, J. (2010). Research questions on linguistics. In L. ), Research methods in linguistics, pp. 9–28. London: Continuum. Sources of examples Levine, G. S. (2003). Student and instructor beliefs and attitudes about target language use, first language use and anxiety: Report of a questionnaire study. Modern Language Journal, 87(3), 343–364. 24 General Considerations in Writing about Quantitative Research Peng, J. , & Woodrow, L. J. (2010). Willingness to communicate in English: A model in Chinese EFL classroom context.