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2016-2017 Academic Year Spring Semester ÇOMU ELT PhD Program Advanced SPSS Applications in Language Teaching Research Course

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TitleoftheCourse:AdvancedSPSSApplicationsinLanguageTeachingResearch

CourseNo:YIDE6018Semester:2ndSemester/1stYearSpring

Coursetype:Lecture Hours-Practice/Week:3-0LanguageofInstruction:English

Credits:8Status:Compulsive

Lecturer: AssistantProfessorDr.SalimRazı

Contact:

Web:www.salimrazi.comE-mail:salimrazi@gmail.comTel:+902862171303ext:3661Fax:+902862120751

Coursedescription:TheaimofthiscourseistointroducestudentstobasicdescriptiveandinferentialstatisticsinAppliedLinguistics.Assuch,thecourseaimstoequipstudentstounderstandandevaluatebetter themethods and statistical perspectives of research studies reported in academicjournalsandbooksinthefield,tohelpstudentsacquiretheconceptsandskillsnecessarytodesign,analyseandreporttheirownstudies,andtofamiliarizestudentswiththerationaleand use of a comprehensive range of techniques andmethods for analysing quantitativelanguagedatausingSPSS.

Teachingmethod: Lectures,classroomapplications,studentpresentations.

Prerequisites: None.

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

Assessmentmethod:Throughout the semester, students need to submit ten written assignments. In theseassignments, students are asked to analyse the data provided by the lecturer and reportthem appropriately. The assignments account for 40% of students’ overall scores. Inaddition, studentsareexpected toconducta research studyand report their findings inaresearch paper constituting of at least 3000 words. This accounts for 50% of students’overallscores.Thosewho(areacceptedto)publishtheirstudiesinaninternationaljournalautomatically receive 100 points for the written research report. Apart from the writtenreport,studentsalsoneedtopresenttheirresearchstudiesina15-minuteoralpresentationsessionat theendof thesemester.Thiswillhaveacontributionof10%over theiroverallgrades. Thosewho (are accepted to) present their studies at a conference, automaticallyreceive 100 points for the presentation session. Please remember that the writtenassignmentsandtheresearchpapermustbesubmittedthroughTurnitin.Pleaserefertotheinstructions to retrieve your class ID and password alongwith information about how tosubmityourassignmentsthroughTurnitin.

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CourseContent

Week/Date Topic Relatedreading Assignment

Week 1

20-24.02.2017Meetingstudents:Introducingcontent ------------- -------------

Week 2

27.02-03.03.2017

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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Week 3

06-10.03.2017Descriptivestatistics;Normaldistribution

• Kerretal.(2002,pp.9-28;29-39)• Larson-Hall(2010,pp.74-94)• Pallant(2001,pp.51-62)

Assignment1duetoWeek4

Week 4

13-17.03.2017Correlation

• Field(2009,pp.166-196)• Larson-Hall(2010,pp.148-175)• Pallant(2001,pp.115-133)• Porte(2002,pp.104-110)

Assignment2duetoWeek5

Week 5

20-24.03.2017

Parametrictests: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)

Assignment3duetoWeek6

Week 6

27-31.04.2017

Parametrictests:ANOVAandposthoctests

• 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)

Assignment4duetoWeek7

Week 7

03-07.04.2017Feedbackonassignments ------------- -------------

Week 8

10-14.04.2017

Nonparametrictests:MannWhitneyU-test,Wilcoxontest,andKruskalWallisH-test

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

• Pallant(2001,pp.255-267)

Assignment5duetoWeek9

Week 9

17-21.04.2017Regression

• Field(2009,pp.197-263)• Larson-Hall(2010,pp.176-204)• Pallant(2001,pp.134-150)• Porte(2002,pp.111-113)

Assignment6duetoWeek10

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Week 10

24-28.04.2017Repeated-measuresofANOVA

• Field(2009,pp.457-505)• Kerretal.(2002,pp.152-156)• Larson-Hall(2010,pp.143-145)• Pallant(2001,pp.195-200)

Assignment7duetoWeek11

Week 11

01-05.05.2017Chi-square

• Larson-Hall(2010,pp.228-240)• Porte(2002,pp.134-138)

Assignment8duetoWeek12

Week 12

08-12.05.2017Feedbackonassignments ------------- -------------

Week 13

15-19.05.2017

Designinginstruments:Exploratoryandconfirmatoryfactoranalysis

• Field(2009,pp.627-685)• Pallant(2001,pp.151-168)

Assignment9duetoWeek14

Week 14

22-26.05.2017

Designinginstruments:Establishingreliabilityandvalidity;multi-traitmultimethodmatrix

• Bagozzi(1993)• Campbell&Fiske(1959)• Colton&Covert(2007,pp.64-94)• Field(2009,p.11)• Pallant(2001,pp.85-88)

Assignment10duetoWeek15

Final Exam Week

29.05-09.06.2017

Researchpaperpresentations -------------

Writtenresearchpaper

Attendancepolicy:Students cannot learn without consistent effort throughout the semester and they arerequired to read the related chapters before the class. Attendancewill be expected in allsessions.Attendancewillbetakenandrecordedinallclasssessions.Pleaserememberthatifyouareunabletoattendmorethan4weeks,youwillautomaticallyfail.Registrationforcourse:RequiredRegistrationforexamination: Pleasescheduleyouroralpresentationsessionwiththelecturer.Remarks:ThislectureissuitableforPhDcandidatesatanylanguageteachingdepartment.Assignmentrequirements:

• Allassignmentsmusto ...bewritteninaccordancewithAPA(6thedition)rules.o ...beonA-4paperinTimesNewRoman,12pointfont.o ...bewrittenwithdoublespacing.o ...have2.54cmmarginsonallsideso ... be turned in on time as late assignments will not be taken into

consideration.o ...besubmittedonlinethroughTurnitin.

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Mainreadinglist:Bagozzi,R.P.(1993).Assessingconstructvalidityinpersonalityresearch:Applicationsto

measureofself-esteem.JournalofResearchinPersonality,27,49-87.Blaxter,L.,Hughes,C.,&Tight,M.(2006).Howtoresearch(3rded.).Berkshire:Open

UniversityPress.Brown,J.D.(2004).Resourcesonquantitative/statisticalresearchforappliedlinguists.

SecondLanguageResearch,20,372-393.Campbell,D.T.,&Fiske,D.W.(1959).Convergentanddiscriminantvaliditybythemultitrait-

multimethodmatrix.PsychologicalBulletin,56(2),81-105.Chapelle,C.A.,&Duff,P.A.().Someguidelinesforconductingquantitativeandqualitative

researchinTESOL.TESOLQuarterly,37,157-178.Colton,D.,&Covert,R.W.(2007).Designingandconstructinginstrumentsforsocialresearch

andevaluation.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.(2001).SPSSsurvivalmanual:AstepbystepguidetodataanalysisusingSPSS.

Berkshire:OpenUniversityPress.Perry,F.L.(2005).Researchinappliedlinguistics:Becomingadiscernconsumer.Mahwah,

NJ:LawrenceErlbaum.Porte,G.K.(2002).Appraisingresearchinsecondlanguagelearning:Apracticalapproachto

criticalanalysisofquantitativeresearch.Amsterdam,Philadelphia,PA:JohnBenjaminsPublishingCompany.

Additionalreadinglist:Bryman,A.,&Cramer,D.(2008).QuantitativedataanalysiswithSPSS14,15and16:Aguide

forsocialscientists.Hove:Routledge.Field,A.,&Hole,G.(2003).Howtodesignadreportexperiments.London:Sage.Gass,S.,&Mackey,A.(2007).Dataelicitationforsecondandforeignlanguageresearch.

Hove:Routledge.George,D.,&Mallery,P.(2003).SPSSforWindowsstepbystep:Asimpleguideand

reference11.0update.Boston:AllynandBacon.Greene,J.,&D’Oliveira,M.(1999).Learningtousestatisticaltestsinpsychology.

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

NewburyHousePublishers.

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

http://www.stat.cmu.edu/~hseltman/309/Book/Book.pdfWright,D.B.(1997).Understandingstatistics.London:SagePublications.Woods,A.,Fletcher,P.,&Hughes,A.(1996).Statisticsinlanguagestudies.Cambridge:

CambridgeUniversityPress.

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ASSIGNMENTSUBMISSIONGUIDELINESTHROUGHTURNITIN

Please,followtheinstructionsbelowtosubmityourassignmentsonlinethroughTurnitin.

CLASSIDANDPASSWORD

ClassID:14783397 Enrollmentpassword:SPSSPhD2017

ENROLLINGINACLASS

Youmustenrollinyourclass(SPSSPhD2016-17Spring)beforeyoucanbeginusingTurnitin.Todothis,usetheclassIDandenrollmentpasswordabove.Tocreateyouaccount,visithttp://turnitin.com/andfollowtheinstructionsbelow.

HOWTOCREATEANEWUSERPROFILEANDENROLLINYOURCLASS

1. Clickthe“CreateAccount”linktotheleftoftheSigninbuttonontheTurnitinhomepage.

2. ClickonthestudentlinkfromtheCreateaNewTurnitinAccountscreen.

3. EnteryourclassIDandenrollmentpasswordintheappropriatefields.

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4. Enteryourfirstandlastnamesandthee-mailaddressyouwouldlikeassociatedwithyourTurnitinaccount.Thiswillbeyourusername.

5. Enterandre-enterthepasswordyouwouldliketouseasyourTurnitinloginpassword.

6. Selectasecretquestionusingthesecretquestionpulldownmenu,enterananswer.

7. ReviewtheTurnitinuseragreementandclicktoagreeandfinalizeuserprofilecreation.

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8. Onceyouregister,youwillhaveanaccesstoyouraccountandseeapagelikethis:

9. Clickonthenameofyourclass(SPSSPhD2016-17Spring).

10. Clickon‘submit’andselecttheappropriateassignment.

11. Forpaperitemsubmissionmethod,pleasechoose‘singlefileupload’.

12. Yournamewillappearautomatically.Please,writethetitleofyourpaperandcontinueby clicking ‘Choose from this computer’. At this step, it is also possible to upload filesfrom‘Dropbox’and‘GoogleDrive’.

13. Donotforgettoclick‘Upload’tosubmityourassignment.

14. Tocompleteyoursubmission,youneedtoclick‘Confirm’toindicatethatthisisthefileyouwouldliketosubmit.

15. Finally, ifyoursubmission issuccessfulyouwillreceivethefollowingnotification. Ifyoudo not receive such a notification, it means that there is something wrong with yoursubmission.