Category: Quantitative

The conventional structure of an M.A. or Ph.D. thesis in language education is divided into many components. A short summary of the research topic, research questions, aims, and importance of the study are given in the Introduction, the first part. The literature review part offers a theoretical foundation for the study as well as a…

Using SPSS Statistics specifically, Chapter 8 focuses on data analysis and hypothesis testing in the context of teaching languages. The chapter discusses several data types (nominal, ordinal, interval, and ratio), how to interpret descriptive statistics, and various hypothesis tests, such as the independent samples t-test, paired samples t-test, one-sample t-test, correlation, and one-way ANOVA. Overall,…

The lecture goes through the fundamentals of population and sampling techniques used in research studies, with a focus on language education. It clarifies the meaning of the terms population and sample and the benefits and drawbacks of probability-based and non-probability-based sampling techniques. In order to assure the representativeness and generalizability of the study results, the…

Language exams and assessments are discussed in Chapter 6 of a book on language acquisition and teaching. The many kinds of language exams, their objectives, and the abilities they evaluate are covered in this chapter. Standardized language tests and teacher-created language exams make up the chapter’s two primary components. Tests that have been created and…

Surveys and questionnaires, interviews, observations, experiments, corpus analysis, language exams and assessments, and recording and transcription are just a few of the research techniques covered in Chapter 5 that are often employed in language education research. Each of these research techniques may be used to examine various aspects of language learning and instruction, and each…

This book’s Chapter 4 specializes on quantitative research strategies. The goal of quantitative research is to measure and analyze numerical data in order to understand, forecast, or regulate occurrences. The primary categories of quantitative research designs—experimental, quasi-experimental, correlational, survey, longitudinal, and cross-sectional—will be covered in this chapter. We will go through the features, benefits, and…

The significance of the literature review in academic study is emphasized in the book’s third chapter. The importance of literature reviews in educational research is discussed in this chapter. Literature reviews help researchers fill in knowledge gaps, develop research questions and hypotheses, expand on the results of prior studies, and pinpoint areas where further study…

The research topic, a crucial element of any research endeavor, is the subject of the book’s second chapter. The chapter covers how researchers could choose a broad area of interest, develop a research question, specify the study’s parameters, and hone the research issue. The chapter gives recommendations for establishing both and highlights the need of…

The first part of this book is a brief summary of the fundamental principles used in educational research. An overview of the value and need for educational research is provided at the beginning of the chapter. The authors stress the importance of high-quality research in informing educational practices and policy. Research subjects’ worth, the need…

Welcome to the course on quantitative research! In this course, you will learn about the fundamental concepts, techniques, and tools of quantitative research. Quantitative research is a method of research that relies on numerical data and statistical analysis to draw conclusions about a population or phenomenon. It is commonly used in fields such as psychology,…