| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 423 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Second language acquisition research series : theoretical and methodological issues |
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Second language acquisition research.
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| Contents |
Statistical Ideas. Getting Started with SPSS and Using the Computer for Experimental Details ; Some Preliminaries to Understanding Statistics ; Describing Data Numerically and Graphically and Assessing Assumptions for Parametric Tests ; Changing the Way We Do Statistics: Hypothesis Testing, Power, Effect Size, and Other Misunderstood Issues -- Statistical Tests. Choosing a Statistical Test ; Finding Relationships Using Correlation: Age of Learning ; Looking for Groups of Explanatory Variables through Multiple Regression: Predicting Important Factors in First-Grade Reading ; Finding Group Differences with Chi-Square when All Your Variables Are Categorical: The Effects of Interation Feedback on Question Formation and the Choice of Copular Verb in Spanish ; Looking for Differences between Two Means with T-Tests: Think-Aloud Methodology and Phonological Memory ; Looking for Group Differences with a One-Way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA): Effects of Planning Time ; Looking for Group Differences with Factorial Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) when There is More than One Independent Variable: Learning with Music ; Looking for Group Differences when the Same People Are Tested More than Once Using Repeated-Measures ANOVA: Wug Tests and Instruction on French Gender ; Factoring out Differences with Analysis of Covariance: The Effect of Feedback on French Gender ; Statistics when Your Data Do Not Satisfy Parametric Assumptions: Non-Parametric Statistics |
| Summary |
This valuable book shows second language researchers how to use the statistical program SPSS to conduct statistical tests frequently done in SLA research. Using data sets from real SLA studies, A Guide to Doing Statistics in Second Language Research Using SPSS shows newcomers to both statistics and SPSS how to generate descriptive statistics, how to choose a statistical test, and how to conduct and interpret a variety of basic statistical tests. The author covers the statistical tests that are most commonly used in second language research, including chi-square, t-tests, correlation, multiple |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 405-411) and indexes |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (ebrary platform, viewed November 4, 2014) |
| SUBJECT |
SPSS (Computer file) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88224991
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SPSS (Computer file) fast |
| Subject |
Second language acquisition -- Research
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Second language acquisition -- Statistical methods
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REFERENCE.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Alphabets & Writing Systems.
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FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- General.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Grammar & Punctuation.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Spelling.
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Second language acquisition -- Research
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Second language acquisition -- Statistical methods
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2008054207 |
| ISBN |
0203875966 |
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9780203875964 |
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