A Guide to Doing Statistics in Second Language Research Using SPSS

A Guide to Doing Statistics in Second Language Research Using SPSS Title : A Guide to Doing Statistics in Second Language Research Using SPSS Author : Jenifer Larson-Hall Publisher : Routledge, 2009 ISBN : 1135594732, 9781135594732 Length : 440 pages Description : This valuable book shows second language researchers how to use the statistical program SPSS to conduct statistical tests frequently done in SLA research. Using data sets from real SLA studies, A Guide to Doing Statistics in Second Language Research Using SPSS shows newcomers to both statistics and SPSS how to generate descriptive statistics, how to choose a statistical test, and how to conduct and interpret a variety of basic statistical tests. It covers the statistical tests that are most commonly used in second language research, including chi-square, t-tests, correlation, multiple regression, ANOVA and non-parametric ...