Advice on Determining Statistical Significance


Date Submitted:	17-Feb-2011
From:	Mary Dong
Subject:	Advice on Determining Statistical Significance
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Notice:	When teaching new words in English, I have found that my students paid attention to meanings but they would often fail to pronounce the new words correctly. In other words, they got higher marks in translation than in pronunciation. I investigated a group of subjects who were all students in a course where English was the L2. I designed a quiz in which there were 20 new words in the text that the participants had just finished learning. The task involved the students first translating L2 vocabulary into L1 and then marking the word stress of L2. I have learned SPSS and wanted to know if this was the most appropriate way to determine statistical significance for my experiment. I would be happy to discuss my methods or results with anyone who would be interested in telling me if my assessment is correct.