Category: Research Methodology (All)
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How to summarise Likert scale data using SPSS
If you want to convert multiple Likert item scores in a combined scale, here’s one way to do it using SPSS.
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Dependent and independent variables, using SPSS, and minding one’s manners
This post will teach you three things: how to tell dependent and independent variables apart; how to calculate correlations; and how not to piss me off.
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How not to do a research project
This post looks into some avoidable issues that can sometimes compromise classroom based research and student research projects. I hope I do not sound too immodest when I claim that I have some experience in school-based research. My PhD research was embedded in a language school, I’ve supervised BA and M-level research projects which involved working with…
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Publishing the ‘Greek Tragedy’ chapter
A step-by-step account of how I published a chapter in an edited collection (Resistance to the Known; Rivers 2014)
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Presenting multilingual data: Some options
In the previous post of the Researching Multilingually series, I discussed some considerations that impacted the representation of multilingual data. In this post, I follow up on those considerations, by presenting four options that can be used to present multilingual data in a research report. These options, which can be thought of as a ‘cline of representational positions’,…
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Thinking about how to present multilingual data
So far in this series of posts on doing multilingual research, I have probed the intricacies of multilingual research settings, presented some dilemmas about obtaining informed consent, and talked about language choice and data generation. This post moves the discussion forward to the most visible outcome of a multilingual research project: How might one present multilingual data on a…
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Do I need permission to evaluate language teaching textbooks?
When is copying content from a language textbook fair use, in a student research project?
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Generating data in a multilingual research environment
Part 3 of the Researching Multilingually series
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Obtaining informed consent in a multilingual research setting
Asking people to participate in your research projects is never straightforward, especially if you are unsure what language to use!