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Questionnaires chapter 14
Hajer AL Hazmi0765565
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