Preface to the Third Edition |
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Introduction |
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1 Questionnaires in Second Language Research |
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1.1 What Are "Questionnaires" and What Do They Measure? |
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1.1.1 What a Questionnaire Is Not |
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1.1.2 What Do Questionnaires Measure? |
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1.2 Using Questionnaires: Pros and Cons |
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1.3 Questionnaires in Quantitative and Qualitative Research |
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2 Constructing the Questionnaire |
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2.1.3 Sensitive Topics and Anonymity |
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2.2 The Main Parts of a Questionnaire |
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2.2.3 Questionnaire Items |
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2.2.4 Sociobiographical Information |
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2.2.5 Additional Information |
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2.3 Appropriate Sampling of the Questionnaire Content and the Significance of "Multi-Item Scales" |
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2.3.1 Appropriate Sampling of the Content |
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2.3.2 Using Multi-Item Scales |
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2.4 "Closed-Ended" Questionnaire Items |
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2.4.2 Multiple-Choice Items |
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2.5.1 Specific Open Questions |
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2.5.2 Clarification Questions |
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2.5.3 Sentence Completion Items |
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2.5.4 Short-Answer Questions |
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2.6 How to Write Good Items |
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2.6.1 Drawing Up an "Item Pool" |
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2.6.2 Rules about Writing Items |
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2.6.3 Writing Sensitive Items |
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2.7 Grouping and Sequencing Items |
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2.7.1 Clear and Orderly Structure |
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2.7.3 Factual (or "Personal" or "Classification") Questions at the Beginning or at the End? |
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2.7.4 Open-Ended Questions at the End |
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2.8 Translating the Questionnaire |
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2.8.1 Translation as a Team-Based Approach |
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2.8.2 Translation with Limited Resources |
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2.9 Computer Programs for Constructing Questionnaires |
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2.10 Piloting the Questionnaire and Conducting Item Analysis |
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2.10.1 Initial Piloting of the Item Pool |
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2.10.2 Final Piloting ("Dress Rehearsal") |
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3 Administering the Questionnaire |
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3.1.1 Sampling Procedures |
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3.1.2 How Large Should the Sample Be? |
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3.1.3 The Problem of Respondent Self-Selection |
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3.2 Main Types of Questionnaire Administration |
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3.2.1 Administration by Mail |
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3.2.2 One-to-One Administration |
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3.2.3 Group Administration |
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3.3 Strategies to Increase the Quality and Quantity of Participant Response |
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3.3.2 Attitudes Conveyed by Teachers, Parents, and Other Authority Figures |
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33.3 Respectable Sponsorship |
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3.3.4 The Presence of a Survey Administrator |
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3.3.5 The Behavior of the Survey Administrator |
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3.3.6 Communicating the Purpose and Significance of the Survey |
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3.3.7 Emphasizing Confidentiality |
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3.3.8 Reading Out the Questionnaire Instructions |
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3.3.9 The Style and Layout of the Questionnaire |
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3.3.10 Promising Feedback on the Results |
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3.4 Questionnaire Administration, Confidentiality, and Other Ethical Issues |
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3.4.1 Basic Ethical Principles of Data Collection |
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3.4.2 Obtaining Consent for Children |
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3.4.3 Strategies for Getting around Anonymity |
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4 Processing Questionnaire Data |
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4.1 Coding Questionnaire Data |
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4.1.1 First Things First: Assigning Identification Codes |
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4.1.2 Coding Quantitative Data |
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4.2.1 Creating and Naming the Data File |
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4.3 Processing Closed Questions |
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4.3.3 Reducing the Number of Variables in the Questionnaire |
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4.3.4 Main Types of Questionnaire Data |
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4.3.5 Examining the Reliability and Validity of the Data |
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4.3.6 Statistical Procedures to Analyze Data |
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4.4 Content Analysis of Open-Ended Questions |
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4.5 Computer Programs for Processing Questionnaire Data |
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4.6 Summarizing and Reporting Questionnaire Data |
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4.6.2 Technical Information to Accompany Survey Results |
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4.6.3 Reader-Friendly Data Presentation Methods |
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4.7 Complementing Questionnaire Data with Other Information |
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4.7.1 Questionnaire Survey with Follow-up Interview or Retrospection |
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4.7.2 Questionnaire Survey Facilitated by Preceding Interview |
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5.1 The Effect of Setting and Social Obligation in Paper and Online Questionnaires |
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5.1.1 Social Context in Online Questionnaires |
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5.1.2 The Ephemeral Relationship between Participant and Researcher |
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5.2 Fear and Distrust of All Types of Questionnaires |
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5.3 When Online Questionnaires Are Impractical or Impossible |
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5.4 Non-probability Sampling in Online Questionnaires |
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5.5 Developing a Good Online Questionnaire |
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5.5.1 Knowing Something about Statistics before Creating a Questionnaire |
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5.5.2 Choosing a Platform |
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5.5.3 Pilot Testing the Online Questionnaire |
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5.6 Getting the Snowball to Roll |
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5.6.1 Producing an Attractive Call for Participation |
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5.6.2 The Appearance of the Questionnaire |
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5.6.3 The Use of a Progression Bar |
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5.6.4 Friendly Academic Nudging |
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5.6.5 Rewarding Participants |
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5.7 When the Harvest Is In |
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5.7.2 Calculating Internal Consistency |
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5.7.3 Being Careful with Automatic Coding |
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5.8 Running the Statistics to Answer the Research Questions: The Hallelujah Moment |
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5.8.1 Double-Checking Suspicious Results |
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5.8.2 Playing by the Rules |
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5.8.3 General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) |
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6 Developing Psychometrically Sound Instruments |
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6.1 Developing and Validating the Short-Form Foreign Language Enjoyment Scale (S-FLES) (Botes et al, 2021) |
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6.1.2 Developing a Short Form through Sequential Steps |
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6.1.3 Concluding Remarks on the S-FLES |
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6.1.4 Final Short-Form Foreign Language Enjoyment Scale (S-FLES) |
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6.2 Developing and Validating a Questionnaire to Measure Intensity and Quality of L2 Engagement (Teravainen-Goff in Preparation) |
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6.2.2 Key Challenges in Developing the Intensity and Quality of an L2 Engagement Questionnaire |
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6.2.3 Final Version of Intensity and Quality of L2 Engagement Questionnaire (Teravainen-Goff, in Preparation) |
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6.3 Developing and Validating the Foreign Language Learning Boredom Scale (FLLBS) (Li et al, 2020) |
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6.3.1 Initial Conceptualization of the Target Construct |
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6.3.2 Development of the Initial Questionnaire |
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6.3.3 Validation of the Questionnaire |
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6.3.4 Final Foreign Language Learning Boredom Scale and Its English Translation |
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7 Conclusion and Checklists |
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7.1 Constructing the Questionnaire |
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7.2 Administering the Questionnaire |
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7.3 Processing Questionnaire Data |
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References |
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Appendix |
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Index |
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