應(yīng)用語言學研究方法與論文寫作

內(nèi)容概要

"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.

書籍目錄

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 thesis/dissertation
  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

章節(jié)摘錄

　　1. What is research?　　If someone asks you to make a cake, you should know what kindof cakes/he wants. To look for a key, you must know what a key lookslike. Without a good understanding of the outcome you intend toobtain, you will experience a lot of frustrations and even failures. Theextreme case is that you might have spent your lifelong time and effortsdoing a piece of work but the eventual results you have obtained are notwhat you desired at all. Similarly, once you make up your mind tomake a commitment to research, the first legitimate question youshould ask is:"What is research?" The importance of such a question iswell illustrated in the following parable:　　A MAN LOOKING FOR FRUITS　　There was once a man who lived in a country that had nofruit trees. This man was a scholar and spent a great deal of timereading. In his readings he often came across references to fruit.The descriptions of fruit were so enticing that he decided toundertake a journey to experience fruit for himself.　He went to the market and asked everyone he met if theyknew where he could find fruit. After much searching he locateda man who knew the directions to the country and place where hecould find fruit. The man drew out elaborate directions for thescholar to follow.　With his map in hand, the scholar carefully followed all ofthe directions. He was very careful to make all of the right turnsand to check out all of the landmarks that he was supposed toobserve. Finally, he came to the end of the directions and foundhimself at the entrance to a large apple orchard. It was springtimeand the apple trees were in blossom.

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