Language educators increasingly conduct research on some aspect of their own practice to illuminate and improve both learning and teaching, says Turner, and though they may share their findings
with colleagues and other professionals, their goal is to understand their specific situation and practice rather than discover some general principle. She explains non-parametric statistics
methods, which she says are perfectly suited to such small-scale language education research. After setting out foundations, she covers analyzing differences between two sets of data, analyzing
differences between more than two sets of data, and analyzing patterns within a variable and between two variables. Annotation ©2014 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
