Doing research is a mystery to many graduate students and sccond language leachers in china.this book aims to dcmystily the process of carrying out research in the field of applid linguistics,particulartly in the area of s\ceond language acquisition and leaching.this book is written for those who have no previous research cxpcricncc at all or those who have done some rescarch without fomaning.it is paiticularly useful for graduate students of applied linguistics,seccond language lcachers and teacher-trainers.
Preface
Part I introduction
1. What is research?
2. Fundamental concepts
Part II Ressearching
3. Developing research questions
4. Reading the literature
5. Selecting research designs
6. Asurvey study
7. An experimental study?
8 A case study
9. Basic statistics
10. The analysis of quantitative date\a
11. The analysis of qualitative data
Part III Thesis writing
12. An overview of thesis writing
13. Writing up a thesis/dissetation
14. Writing style
References
Appendixes
Author index
Subject index