Collecting and Analyzing Data UNIT 7.5

following established procedure for scientific

research

Formulation of a hypothesis,

Design of the most suitable method of data collection and handling

Analysis of the data

Conclusion and Evaluation

Bibliography

Research Topics and Data Sources

-coupus Copies od spoken and written text as they are used naturally now stored electronically

-corpus data- info stored in a corpus comprising written texts and/or transcriptions of spoken language

Lexis:

distinctive jargon

Neologisms:

new words/acronyms, especially those used

in social media and marketing

Semantics

meanings of words and their accepted

associations

Syntax: Popular topic areas for English Language Research

a text’s composition regarding the length and

structure of sentences as well as their types

Diachrony

The study of the changes in language

over time

Sources of Data

Advertisements, brochures, leaflets, editorials, news

stories, articles ect

Corpus Linguistics

The study of language and how it changes over long periods of time, based on the analysis of large collections of different text types

Sample

A set of data or responses collected from a

percentage of the whole population selected by a

defined procedure

Random Sample

Where everyone who is a member

of the population (respondent) being investigated has

an equal chance of being selected for the sample

Respondent

The person replying

A Level English Language research favors various methods of data collection

-recording and transcribing spoken language.source

-Collecting text like speeches and adverts and annotating them for comparison

-websites for vid and specific data

-creation of questionnaire and interviews

-oberservations observations

Questionnaire design

Avoid any questions likely to cause offense

Technical questions are to be avoided

Open ended questions should be kept to a minimum

‘Loaded’ questions should be avoided

Open Questions and Closed Questions

open - Where the respondent is free to put any answer

closed- Where the respondent chooses

from the options given

Pilot Survey

A set of questions divided and

distributed to a small population to test the questionnaire’s questions

Most likely scales to complete data analysis

Nominal - data gathered which is allocated to a particular

category (yes/no; number of virtuous errors)

Ordinal - data which can be ranked in order (results to show

which second language people spoke, where English is

measured with other languages

Interval - Where the difference between the data can be

measured (Temperature)

Ratio - Similar to interval, but it must have a true zero (height)