Module Aims (1)
   To equip you with the knowledge and 
    skills to enable you to critically 
    evaluate published research 
    To improve your ‘statistical literacy’
           Module Aims (2)
    To introduce you to the basic concepts, 
     experimental design and statistical procedures 
     needed to conduct research
    “scholarly or scientific investigation or inquiry” 
     or as a verb “to study (something) thoroughly”
         Research is a way of finding out 
              answers to questions 
           What is going on and why?
        Module Aims (3)
   To provide hands-on experience in 
    using the statistical package SPSS to 
    carry out data analysis in 
    Linguistics/Applied Ling/ELT/SLP
   Statistics is one way of finding out 
         answers to questions 
    What do we have and what do we 
           want to do with it?
            Teamwork!
  Critically evaluate and constructively support…
    ▪ What are the research questions? Are they clear? Is there 
     too many? Can they be answered? Do they contribute to the 
     field of study?
    ▪ How will they be answered? Is the methodology suitable? 
     Time constraints and sampling limitations. Instrument 
     design and precision.
    ▪ Post data collection: what does your partner have and what 
     can they do with it?  What type of data do they have and 
     what statistical methods should they use to tell the story? 
    ▪ Does the story make sense? If not, why not? Identifying 
     problems along the way - limitations of current research 
    ▪ What else could be done? Avenues for further research…
     Course breakdown, timetabling 
                         and venues
     MT – ways of researching that does not involve number 
     crunching or statistics!
     HT – answering questions using statistical analysis and 
     specifically the package SPSS.
     Timetabling MT:  Wednesday 4-5 Room 3106
           Wednesday 5-6 Room 3126
     Timetabling HT: Wednesday 4-6 Botany Lab
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     MT: Group 1: Weds 26 Sept to Weds the 31  Oct (AL/ELT) – 
        6wks
        Group 2: Weds 7th Nov to Weds 12th Dec (Ling/SLP)              – 
        6wks