Questionnaires chapter 14

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What is a Questionnaire?

• A questionnaire is a set of questions on a topic designed to be answered by a respondent.

• A questionnaire should be:-valid-reliable -clear

What research areas can a questionnaire be used for?

• To produce linguistic mapsTraditional

dialectology

• To show attitudes towards language

sociolinguistics

• To show the importance of motivation for successful learningSecond-language

teaching

Subjects

• A questionnaire can be used with any person who can understand questions and answer them.

• Subjects have to be selected carefully to ensure that as reliable and representative as possible.

Types of Questionnaires

Researcher is Present

• Its advantage: Can answer any unclear questions.

• • Its disadvantage: when

respondents ask too much questions can be confusing.

Researcher is Absent

•Its advantage: reach people in far away places.

•Its disadvantage: Takes longer time to send to researcher to ask about unclear questions.

How to design a Questionnaire

-Questions must be simple and unambiguous.

-Words should be clear.

-If you provide a choice of answers, make sure it covers all possibilities.

-Begin with easy questions.

Types of Data

Direct approach

• Its advantage: will be easily understood.

• Its disadvantage: it can lead to : 1-courtesy bias : try to please the researcher.

• 2-sucker bias: try to mislead the researcher.

Indirect approach• It means that not inform

respondents about the topic of the questionnaire.

• Its advantage: No bias

• Its disadvantage: some answers will be irrelevant.

Types of Data

Open Questions • Its answer is open , not

definite.• Its advantage: It gives

respondent freedom.• One disadvantage of this

type is its irrelevance.

Closed Questions• Answered in limited way.• Its advantage: easy to

analyze. • One disadvantage of this

type is its directives.

Types of Data

• Multiple Choice • True or false questions• Written Questionnaire

(expressive )• Spoken Questionnaire