TY - JOUR
AU - BAILEY, KATHLEEN M.
AB -  Newbury House, 1991. Pp. xii + 628. The MA Program in TESOL and Teaching Foreign Languages at the Monterey Institute of International Studies includes a required course in BOOK NOTICES 209 educational research methods, which focuses on the experimental paradigm and quantitative analyses. (Alternative approaches to research and the use of qualitative analyses are covered in other courses.) Since 1981, when the program was founded, my colleagues and I who have taught this course have sought appropriate texts. So far, we have used Tuckman (1978), Hatch and Farhady (1982), Brown (1988), and Hatch and Lazaraton (1991). Having taught the course over a dozen times myself, I have utilized each of these as primary texts for the students, and several others as resources. My favorite reference texts have included Jaeger (1983), Shavelson (1981), Nunan (1992), and Woods, Fletcher, and Hughes (1986). The broad goals of the course are that the MA candidates will become not only competent and confident consumers of research information (because so much of what they must read utilizes experimental research designs and inferential statistics) but will also be capable of planning and conducting their own studies. Although the Brown (1988) text (which I use in 
TI - The Research Manual: Design and Statistics for Applied Linguistics
JF - Tesol Quarterly
DO - 10.2307/3587214
DA - 1994-03-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wiley/the-research-manual-design-and-statistics-for-applied-linguistics-NnYocZbsjO
SP - 209
VL - 28
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -