语言焦虑研究入门

     The current book integrates theory with practice. It combines general methodology with the specific issue of language anxiety. The book is intended to equip beginning researchers with basic methods, techniques, and skills for them to pursue investigation on language anxiety independently.

     王天剑，男，1968年生，应用语言学博士，现为贵州财经学院副教授。近几年在《外语与外语教学》、《中国应用语言学》、《中小学英语教学与研究》等学术刊物上公开发表论文十余篇。所主持贵州省教育厅人文社科研究课题荣获三等奖。

1  The concept of language anxiety
  1.1  Anxiety
  1.2  Language anxiety
2  The paradigm and primary stages of research on language anxiety
  2.1  The paradigm of research
  2.2  Stages of research
3  Research questio
  3.1  Theoretical and practical questio
  3.2  Sources of research questio
  3.3  Evaluating the research questio
4  Literature review
  4.1  The roles of literature review
  4.2  Sources of literature
  4.3  Strategies for literature review
5  Research hypotheses
  5.1  The significance of the hypothesis
  5.2  Deductive and inductive reasoning
  5.3  Deductive and inductive hypotheses
6  Sampling
  6.1  The rationale of sampling
  6.2  The probability and non-probability sampling
  6.3  Sample size
7  Data collection
  7.1  Questionnaire
  7.2  Observatio
  7.3  Interview
  7.4  Experiment
8 Data analysis
  8.1  Descriptive analysis
  8.2  The rationale of inferential analysis
  8.3  The test of mea
  8.4  Test of proportio
  8.5  Test of distributio
  8.6  Correlation analysis
  8.7  Regression analysis
  8.8  Qualitative analysis
9 Primary findings on language anxiety
  9.1  Retrospect into early period of research
  9.2  Language anxiety and learner variables
  9.3  Language anxiety and language learning
  9.4  Theories on language anxiety
  9.5  Learning theories relevant to and possible remedies for
language anxiety
10  Speaking anxiety reduction: the Wang SAR model
  10.1  The theoretical basis of the Wang SAR Model
  10.2  The script of the Wang SAR Model
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