This book is concerned with both how to
conduct research and how to write a thesis or a dissertation.
Graduate students, I have found,face difficulties not only in
actual research but also in writing up theirthesesdissertations.
This book addresses questions that have actuallybeen experienced by
myself and my students. For example. How can Iselect a suitable
topic? Which research design should I employ? What isthe best time
for me to collect data and in which way? Should I analyze the dat
內容簡介：
"Give a man a fish and he eats for a
day. Teach him how to fish and heeats for a lifetime. " Doing
research is a mystery to many graduate students and secondlanguage
teache in China. This book aims to demystify the process ofcarrying
out research in the field of applied linguistics, particularly
inthe area of second language acquisition and teaching. This book
iswritten for those who have no previous research experience at all
orthose who have done some research without formal training. It
isparticularly useful for graduate students of applied linguistics,
secondlanguage teache and teacher-traine.
目錄：
Preface
Part I Introduction
1. What is research?
Definition of research
Visualizing the research process
Classificatio of research
Summary
Discussion questio
2. Fundamental concepts
Hypothesis, theory and model
Population and sample
Variables
Levels of measurement
Operationalization
Summary
Discussion questio
Part II Researching
3. Developing research questio
Procedures
Problems in question formation
Summary
Discussion questio
4. Reading the literature
Sources of literature
Procedures for reviewing the literature
Deciding the scope
Summarizing the information
Summary
Discussion questio
5. Selecting research desig
Quantitative and qualitative
Links between question and design
A mono-design or a mixed design?
Complexities in classifying desig
Summary
Discussion questio
6. A survey study
A brief description
Itrument designing, questionnaire
Scaling techniques
Selecting subjects
Administering the questionnaire
Summary
Discussion questio
7. An experimental study
What is an experimental study?
Causality
Validity in experimentation
Types of experimental studies
Procedures for an experimental study
Summary
Discussion questio
8. A ease study
What is a case study?
Selecting the subjects
Collecting data
Summary
Discussion questio
9. Basic statistics
A brief description of statistics
Descriptive statistics
Inferential statistics
Summary
Discussion questio
10. The analysis of quantitative data
Overview of SPSS for windows
Questionnaire data analysis
Analyzing data from an experiment
Summary
Discussion questio
11. The analysis of qualitative data
Choices in analyzing qualitative data
Data preparation
Qualitative analysis
Validity and reliability
Summary
Discussion questio
Part III Thesis Writing
12. An overview of thesis writing
Definitio
The structure of a thesis
Summary
Discussion questio
13. Writing up a thesisdissertation
Writing an introduction
Writing a literature review
Describing methodology
Reporting results and discussion
Writing the conclusion chapter
Summary
Discussion questio
14. Writing style
Academic writing style
APA writing format
Summary
Discussion questio
References
Appendixes
Appendix one：A Survey Study
Appendix two：An Experimental Study.
Appendix three: A Case Study
Appendix four: Questionnaire Description
Appendix five: Random Numbe
Subject index
Author index
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