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开 本: 16开纸 张: 胶版纸包 装: 平装是否套装: 否国际标准书号ISBN: 9787560046068
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 theirtheses/dissertations.
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 data
quantitatively or qualitatively? What is the difference
betweenreporting a result and discussing a result? What should be
covered by aliterature review?
“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.
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
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