x_2022S_Statistics for Language 教       師： Doris Shih 對象/系級： 英文系課程  / Senior/Graduate 課程性質： 輔助教學 開課學期： Spring 2022 學       分： 3 Do you know that when we talk about Bell Curve in the statistics class, it’s actually more than just a bell shape?? Or how to tell which class made more progress, Reading Group A or Reading Group B? Or who speaks more Taiwanese, students in the College of Foreign Languages or students in the College of Science and Engineering? Or what is actually tested in a cloze test? Or how to determine rates of language change over time? Or how to tell the frequency of vocabulary? Or that actually we can manipulate numbers to let them look sensible??? (That’s why there is a book entitled How to Lie with Statistics!). And if you are interested in big data and data mining (such as through SAS-EM), you should also have some background knowledge in statistics. This course will give you a very basic introduction to statistics (descriptive statistics and inferential statistics) in the study of language. We will cover the purpose of using statistics, the concept of probability, basic types of statistical tests, and the presentation and interpretation of numbers for language study. Besides the in-class lectures, interactions, and exercises, we will watch a set of videos introducing basic statistic concepts and some hands-on practices on one of the popular statistical analysis program, SPSS. If time permits, we will also look at another program, SAS-EG. Furthermore, we will also try another free program briefly, R Commander (We are not learning R, the programming language for statistical computing. We will learn R Commander briefly, which is a basic graphical user interface for R). ＊Class Participation:5% ＊Exercises & Assignments:33% ＊Quizzes:12% ＊Group Presentation:10% ＊Midterm Exam:15% ＊Final Exam:25%   Brown, J. D. (1988). Understanding research in Second Language Learning: A teacher’s guide to statistics and research design. Cambridge: CUP. (re-printed 2002). Brown, J. D. (1991). Statistics as a Foreign Language—Part I: What to look for in reading statistical language studies. TESOL Quarterly 25, 569-603. Brown, J. D. (1992). Statistics as a Foreign Language—Part II: More things to consider in reading statistical language studies.” TESOL Quarterly 26, 629-64. Field, A. (2018). Discovering statistics using IBM SPSS statistics (5th ed.). Sage Publications Ltd. Hatch, E., & Lazaraton, A. (1991). The research manual: Design and statistics for applied linguistics. Newbury House. Huff, D. (1954). How to lie with statistics. W.W. Norton & Company. Salkind, N. J. (2000). Statistics for people who (think they) hate statistics. Sage. 邱皓政 (2021). 量化研究法(二): 統計原理與分析技術(二版增修版)。雙葉書廊有限公司。 Other handouts.