Language Teaching Research YIDE5021 Fall · 2018-09-25 · 2 2018-2019 Fall Semester ÇOMU ELT MA Program SPSS Applications in Language Teaching Research S. Razı Course Content Week

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2018-2019 Fall Semester ÇOMU ELT MA Program SPSS Applications in Language Teaching Research S. Razı

TitleoftheCourse:

SPSSApplicationsin

LanguageTeachingResearch

Course-No:

YIDE5021

Semester:

1stSemester/1stYear

Fall

Coursetype:

Lecture

Hours-Practice/Week:

3-0

Credits

Local ECTS

Status:

Compulsory

LanguageofInstruction:English

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Lecturer: AssistantProfessorDr.SalimRAZI

Contact:

Web:www.salimrazi.com

Email:[email protected],[email protected]

Tel:+902862171303ext:3526-3661

Fax:+902862120751

Coursedescription:TheaimofthiscourseistointroducestudentstobasicdescriptiveandinferentialstatisticsinAppliedLinguistics. As such, the course aims to equip students to understand and evaluate better themethodsandstatisticalperspectivesofresearchstudiesreportedinacademicjournalsandbooksinthe field, to help students acquire the concepts and skills necessary to design, analyse and reporttheirownstudies,andtofamiliarizestudentswiththerationaleanduseofacomprehensiverangeoftechniquesandmethodsforanalysingquantitativelanguagedatausingSPSS.

Teachingmethod:Lectures,classroomapplications,studentpresentations.

Prerequisites:None.

Teachingaids:PowerPointpresentation,referencebooks,articles,computers,SPSS.

Assessmentmethod:Throughouttheterm,youneedtosubmitfivewrittenassignments(40%)inwhichyouareexpectedto analyse the data provided by the lecturer and report them in accordance with the analysingtechniquesinthesyllabus.Attheendoftheterm,youneedtosubmitawrittenresearchpaperofatleast 3,000 words (50%) in which you report your research findings. You will also deliver an oralpresentation of your research (10%). Five written assignments will contribute to your mid-termexamination score whereas research paper and oral presentation contribute to your final grade.Please remember that the five written assignments and the research paper must be submittedthroughTurnitin.Pleaserefertothe instructionstoretrieveyourclass IDandpasswordalongwithinformationabouthowtosubmityourassignmentsthroughTurnitin.

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CourseContent

Week/Date DiscussionTopics RelatedReadings Assignments

Week1

17-21.09.2018

Meetingthestudents:Introducingthecoursecontent

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Week2

24-28.09.2018

Preparingdataforanalysis;Exploringassumptions;

Hypotheses&Tests

Blaxteretal.(2006,pp.193-225)Field(2009,pp.61-86;131-166)Kerretal.(2002,p.44)Larson-Hall(2010,pp.7-17,97-99)Pallant(2001,pp.27-48)

Porte(2002,pp.15-34)

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Week3

01-05.10.2018

Descriptivestatistics;

Normaldistribution

Kerretal.(2002,pp.9-28;29-39)Larson-Hall(2010,pp.74-94)

Pallant(2001,pp.51-62)

Assignment1

Week4

08-12.10.2018Correlation

Field(2009,pp.166-196)

Larson-Hall(2010,pp.148-175)

Pallant(2001,pp.115-133)

Porte(2002,pp.104-110)

Assignment2

Week5

15-19.10.2018Feedbackonresearchproposal ------------- Research

proposal

Week6

22-26.10.2018Establishingreliabilityandvalidity

Colton&Covert(2007,pp.64-94)

Field(2009,p.11)

Pallant(2001,pp.85-88)

Assignment3

Week7

29.10-02.11.2018Feedbackonassignments ------------- -------------

Week8

05-09.11.2018

Independentandpairedsamplest-tests&Cohen’sdeffectsize

Field(2009,pp.316-346)

Larson-Hall(2010,pp.114-120,241-267)

Pallant(2001,pp.175,177-185)

Porte(2002,pp.114-122)

Assignment4

Week9

12-16.11.2018

Analysisofvariances(ANOVA)andpost-hoctests

Field(2009,pp.347-394)

Kerretal.(2002,pp.79-98)

Larson-Hall(2010,pp.268-289)

Pallant(2001,pp.186-200)

Porte(2002,pp.123-133)

Assignment5

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Week10

19-23.11.2018Feedbackontheresearchproject ------------- -------------

Week11

26-30.11.2018Exploratoryfactoranalysis(EFA)

Field(2009,pp.627-685)

Pallant(2001,pp.151-168)-------------

Week12

03-07.12.2018

Nonparametrictests:MannWhitneyU-test,Wilcoxontest,andKruskalWallisH-test

Larson-Hall(2010,pp.143-145;323-356)

Pallant(2001,pp.255-267)-------------

Week13

10-14.12.2018Researchpaperpresentations ------------- -------------

Week14

17-21.12.2018Researchpaperpresentations ------------- -------------

24.12.2018-04.01.2019

FinalExaminationWeek ------------- -------------

Attendancepolicy:Studentscannotlearnwithoutconsistenteffortthroughoutthetermandtheyarerequiredtoreadtherelatedchaptersbeforetheclass.Attendancewillbeexpectedinallsessions.Attendancewillbetakenandrecordedinallclasssessions.Pleaserememberthatifyouareunabletoattendmorethan4weeks,youwillautomaticallyfail.Plagiarismpolicy:Either accidental or intentional, there is no tolerance for plagiarism. You need to submit all yourassignmentsthroughTurnitinandasthelecturerIwilldeterminetheoriginalityofyourassignmentsby checking them against plagiarism. Please check the lecturer’s policy of plagiarism for furtherdetails.Registrationforexamination: Oralpresentationsshouldbescheduledwiththelecturer.Remarks: Thislectureissuitableforgraduatestudentsofalllanguageteachingdepartments.Assignmentrequirements:

• Allassignmentsmusto ...bewritteninaccordancewithAPArules.o ...beonA-4paper.o ...bewritteninTimesNewRoman,12-pointfont.o ...bewrittenwithdoublespacing.o ...have2.5cmmarginsonallsides

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o ... have your name, student number, and class in the upper right hand corner foreachpage.

o ...beturnedinontimeaslateassignmentswillnotbetakenintoconsideration.o ...besubmittedonlinethroughTurnitin.

Mainreadinglist:

Blaxter,L.,Hughes,C.,&Tight,M.(2006).Howtoresearch(3rded.).Berkshire:OpenUniversityPress.

Brown,J.D.(2004).Resourcesonquantitative/statisticalresearchforappliedlinguists.SecondLanguageResearch,20,372-393.

Chapelle,C.A.,&Duff,P.A.().SomeguidelinesforconductingquantitativeandqualitativeresearchinTESOL.TESOLQuarterly,37,157-178.

Colton,D.,&Covert,R.W.(2007).Designingandconstructinginstrumentsforsocialresearchandevaluation.SanFrancisco:Jossey-Bass.

Field,A.(2009).DiscoveringstatisticsusingSPSS(3rded.).London:Sage.

Kerr,W.A.,Hall,H.K.,&Kozub,S.A.(2002).DoingstatisticswithSPSS.London:Sage.

Larson-Hall,J.(2010).AguidetodoingstatisticsinsecondlanguageresearchusingSPSS.NewYork,NY,London:Routledge.

Lazarton,A.,Riggenbach,H.,&Ediger,A.(1987).Formingadiscipline:Appliedlinguists’literacyinresearchmethodologyandstatistics.TESOLQuarterly,21,263-277.

Loewen,S.,&Susan,G.(2009).TheuseofstatisticsinL2acquisitionresearch.Lang.Teach.,42,181-196.

Pallant,J.(2013).SPSSsurvivalmanual:AstepbystepguidetodataanalysisusingIBMSPSS(5thed.).Berkshire:OpenUniversityPress.

Perry,F.L.(2005).Researchinappliedlinguistics:Becomingadiscernconsumer.Mahwah,NJ:LawrenceErlbaum.

Porte,G.K.(2002).Appraisingresearchinsecondlanguagelearning:Apracticalapproachtocriticalanalysisofquantitativeresearch.Amsterdam,Philadelphia,PA:JohnBenjamins.

Additionalreadinglist:

Bryman,A.,&Cramer,D.(2008).QuantitativedataanalysiswithSPSS14,15and16:Aguideforsocialscientists.Hove:Routledge.

Field,A.,&Hole,G.(2003).Howtodesignadreportexperiments.London:Sage.

Gass,S.,&Mackey,A.(2007).Dataelicitationforsecondandforeignlanguageresearch.Hove:Routledge.

George,D.,&Mallery,P.(2003).SPSSforWindowsstepbystep:Asimpleguideandreference11.0update.Boston:AllynandBacon.

Greene,J.,&D’Oliveira,M.(1999).Learningtousestatisticaltestsinpsychology.Buckingham:OpenUniversityPress.

Hatch,E.,&Farhady,H.(1982).Researchdesignandstatisticsforappliedlinguists.Rowley:NewburyHousePublishers.

Hatch,E.,&Lazaraton,A.(1991).Theresearchmanual.Boston:HeinleandHeinle.

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Howel,D.C.(1999).Fundamentalstatistics.PacificGrove:DuxburyPress.

Johnson,K.(2008).Quantitativemethodsinlinguistics.Malden:Blackwell.

Larsen-Hall,J.(2010).AguidetodoingstatisticsinsecondlanguageresearchusingSPSS.NewYork:Routledge.

MackeyA.,&Gass,S.(2005).Secondlanguageresearch:Methodologyanddesign.Hove:Routledge.

Rowntree,D.(1981).Statisticswithouttears.London:Penguin.

Scholfield,P.(1995).Quantifyinglanguage.Clevedon:MultilingualMatters.

Seltman,H.(2012).Experimentaldesignandanalysis.Availableathttp://www.stat.cmu.edu/~hseltman/309/Book/Book.pdf

Tomlinson,B.,&Masuhara,H.(2010).Researchformaterialsdevelopmentinlanguagelearning:Evidenceforbestpractice.London:Continuum.

Wright,D.B.(1997).Understandingstatistics.London:SagePublications.

Woods,A.,Fletcher,P.,&Hughes,A.(1996).Statisticsinlanguagestudies.Cambridge:CambridgeUniversityPress.

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CLASSIDANDPASSWORD

ClassID:19179623 Enrollmentpassword:SPSS2018MA

ENROLLINGINACLASS

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HOWTOCREATEANEWUSERPROFILEANDENROLLINYOURCLASS

1. Clickthe“CreateAccount”linktotheleftoftheSigninbuttonontheTurnitinhomepage.

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7. ReviewtheTurnitinuseragreementandclicktoagreeandfinalizeuserprofilecreation.

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9. Clickonthenameofyourclass(SPSS2016-17MA).

10. Clickon‘submit’andselecttheappropriateassignment.

11. Forpaperitemsubmissionmethod,pleasechoose‘singlefileupload’.

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Language Teaching Research YIDE5021 Fall · 2018-09-25 · 2 2018-2019 Fall Semester ÇOMU ELT MA Program SPSS Applications in Language Teaching Research S. Razı Course Content Week