Understanding Research in Second Language Learning A Teacher's Guide to Statistics and Research Design

Name: Understanding Research in Second Language Learning A Teacher's Guide to Statistics and Research Design
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ISBN: 9780521315517

ISBN-10: 0521315514

ISBN-13: 9780521315517

Edition: 1988

Authors: James Dean Brown, Michael Swan

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This text focuses on the skills and processes necessary for understanding statistical research in language learning Designed for language teachers with no previous background in statistics, the paperback edition focuses on the skills and processes necessary for understanding statistical research in language learning. Brown explains the basic terms of statistics, the structure and organization of statistical research reports, the system of statistical logic, and how to decipher tables, charts, and graphs. By the end of the book, readers will be able to make knowledgeable judgments about the relative qualities of a study and to assess the value of the results of a study in relation to a…

Book details

List price: $70.25
Copyright year: 1988
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 9/30/1988
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 234
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.98" long x 0.55" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English



List of illustrations


Prefatory notes


Acknowledgments


Prologue: America as the Fourth World



Text



Provenance


Circum-Caribbean


Mesoamerica


Greater Mexico and Turtle Island


Beyond Tahuantinsuyu



Language and its instances


script and text


Tlacuilolli;Teoamoxtli


Maya hieroglyphs


The case of the quipu



Configurations of space


Maps


Quincunx


Quatrefoil



Configurations of time


Year counts


The era


Correlation



Political Memory



Peten, Preliminaries


Cities of Words


U kahlay katunob


A ciphered heritage



Tollan, Toltec Skill, Mexquital Tula


The Great Tula



Turtle Island


History and Prehistory


Appalachia


The Siouan pipe and its horizons


Northern migrations



Tahuantinsuyu, locating Inca power, Pature within its fence, herders and flocks, the outlaw from Ollantaytambo



Genesis



Popol vuh, Structure and story


The mud people and the doll people


Seven Parrot and family


Down to Xibalba


The maize people



World ages and metamorphosis


Suns of Mesoamerica


Sipapuni


Andean ascent


Flood and food tree



The epic


Heroes and the vision quest


Quetzal maize thrives, Traveler fares


The Northern Trance Journey


How human time begins



American cosmos


Convergence at QuichT


Timing


Garden of the Planet



Into the Language of America



The translation process, source and perspective, Aesop in Aztec


Tawaddud and Maya Wit


Faustian Incas


Cinderella between Mapuche and Zuni


Epilogue: the American Palimpsest


Abbreviations used in notes and bibliography


Notes


Glossary


Bibliography


Index