2010年2月4日 星期四
Qestions about analyzing data
In my reflection this week, I raise a question based on the Shekary and Tahririan article about language-related episodes theory. I learned language – related episodes (LRE) theory based on the text-based online chat from Shekary and Tahririan’s article. The authors isolated LRE to discuss more thoroughly. I know the three stages of LRE: trigger, response and uptake, but I do not quite know how the authors analyzed the data; especially, the “reliability of coding.” The kappa coefficients for LRE characteristics ranged from k = .685 to .925. Furthermore, there is another theory “dichotomizing coding” I do not understand. Should we get more background about those analytical methods? I am interested in how the authors combined text-online chat with English learning, but I was kind of lost in the part of the article in which they analyze the data.
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Well, I got lost in that part too and went to read the discussion and conclusion instead. That made me realize that I need to take a statistics class to be able to understand. I liked this article because I learned about LREs for example and the authors were concerned about subsequent language learning and not just what Ss notice at the moment. Mig.
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