应用语言学研究方法与论文写作：英文版

　　"Give a man a fish and he eats for a day. Teach him how to fish and heeats for a lifetime. "Doing research is a mystery to many graduate students and secondlanguage teachers in China. This book aims to demystify the process ofcarrying out research in the field of applied linguistics， particularly inthe area of second language acquisition and teaching. This book iswritten for those who have no previous research experience at all orthose who have done some research without formal training. It isparticularly useful for graduate students of applied linguistics， secondlanguage teachers and teacher-trainers.This book is concerned with both how to conduct research and howto write a thesis or a dissertation. Graduate students， I have found，face difficulties not only in actual research but also in writing up theirtheses/dissertations. This book addresses questions that have actuallybeen experienced by myself and my students. For example. How can Iselect a suitable topic？ Which research design should I employ？ What isthe best time for me to collect data and in which way？ Should I analyzethe data quantitatively or qualitatively？ What is the difference betweenreporting a result and discussing a result？ What should be covered by aliterature review？In response to these challenges， this book provides the readerswith solutions， and with suggestions if there is no definite answer. PartI serves as a general introduction in which some basic concepts areexplained~ Part II focuses on the research process and covers differentphases of a single study. Part III describes the overall structure of athesis/dissertation and what is expected to be included or not includedin different chapters.

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Preface
Part I Introduction
1. What is research?
　Definition of research
　Visualizing the research process
　Classifications of research
　Summary
　Discussion questions
2. Fundamental concepts
　Hypothesis, theory and model
　Population and sample
　Variables
　Levels of measurement
　Operationalization
　Summary
　Discussion questions
Part II Researching
3. Developing research questions
　Procedures
　Problems in question formation
　Summary
　Discussion questions
4. Reading the literature
　Sources of literature
　Procedures for reviewing the literature
　Deciding the scope
　Summarizing the information
　Summary
　Discussion questions
5. Selecting research designs
　Quantitative and qualitative
　Links between question and design
　A mono-design or a mixed design?
　Complexities in classifying designs
　Summary
　Discussion questions
6. A survey study
　A brief description
　Instrument designing, questionnaire
　Scaling techniques
　Selecting subjects
　Administering the questionnaire
　Summary
　Discussion questions
7. An experimental study
　What is an experimental study?
　Causality
　Validity in experimentation
　Types of experimental studies
　Procedures for an experimental study
　Summary
　Discussion questions
8. A ease study
　What is a case study?
　Selecting the subjects
　Collecting data
　Summary
　Discussion questions
9. Basic statistics
　A brief description of statistics
　Descriptive statistics
　Inferential statistics
　Summary
　Discussion questions
10. The analysis of quantitative data
　Overview of SPSS for windows
　Questionnaire data analysis
　Analyzing data from an experiment
　Summary
　Discussion questions
11. The analysis of qualitative data
　Choices in analyzing qualitative data
　Data preparation
　Qualitative analysis
　Validity and reliability
　Summary
　Discussion questions
Part III Thesis Writing
12. An overview of thesis writing
　Definitions
　The structure of a thesis
　Summary
　Discussion questions
13. Writing up a thesis/dissertation
　Writing an introduction
　Writing a literature review
　Describing methodology
　Reporting results and discussion
　Writing the conclusion chapter
　Summary
　Discussion questions
14. Writing style
　Academic writing style
　APA writing format
　Summary
　Discussion questions
References
Appendixes
Appendix one：A Survey Study
Appendix two：An Experimental Study.
Appendix three: A Case Study
Appendix four: Questionnaire Description
Appendix five: Random Numbers
Subject index
Author index