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Research Questions - Application Activity1

The document presents a series of research questions and hypotheses focused on identifying independent and dependent variables in various educational contexts. Each question explores the relationship between different factors, such as teaching methods, language acquisition, and cultural exposure, and their impact on student performance or learning outcomes. The aim is to clarify the variables involved in each study for better understanding and analysis.

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Research Questions - Application Activity1

The document presents a series of research questions and hypotheses focused on identifying independent and dependent variables in various educational contexts. Each question explores the relationship between different factors, such as teaching methods, language acquisition, and cultural exposure, and their impact on student performance or learning outcomes. The aim is to clarify the variables involved in each study for better understanding and analysis.

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Application Activity: Practice in Identifying Variables

Identify the independent and dependent variables in the following research questions /
hypotheses. In some cases, there may be more than one independent variable, but there is
never more than one dependent variable.
1. What is the effect of peer reviewing and tutor conferencing on learners’ writing
performance in their narratives.
2. Would playing an online role-playing game in another language help students learn
Spanish better?
3. Mizuno (1998) hypothesized that there would be a relationship between the amount of
cultural exposure students had before they went overseas and the amount of cultural
exposure they would obtain once they were living in the country.
4. Will providing different types of targeted feedback on written work help students
improve in their ability to use grammar accurately?
5. Is there a relationship between students’ family background and their performance at
school?
6. Are people who are good at music better at detecting Chinese tone than people who are
not?
7. Will students learn vocabulary better if they are able to associate them through
multiword expressions rather than just singly?
8. What kinds of phonological problems will Koreans and Japanese learners of English
have?
9. Wharton (2000): Do high-proficiency learners use more language learning strategies
than low-proficiency learners?
10. Will students' scores on a grammar test differ between grammar translation and
communicative language teaching?
11. Munro, Derwing, and Morton (2006): Does L1 background influence the way that
English learners rate the speech of other English learners for comprehensibility?
12. Hirata (2004): Does pronunciation training with visual feedback help learners improve
their perception of phonemically contrastive pairs of words more than training without
visual feedback?
13. Proctor, August, Carlo, and Snow (2006): What kind of relationship exists among an oral
language measure and a reading comprehension measure in English for fourth-grade
bilinguals?
14. Bialystok, Craik, Klein, and Viswanathan (2004): Do age and being bilingual affect the
accuracy with which participants perform on the Simon test (a test that measures
whether participants can ignore irrelevant information)?
15. What is the effect of participation in a volunteer aiding program on later performance in
ESL practice teaching?
16. Wartenburger et al. (2003): Do age of acquisition (AOA) and proficiency level affect what
neural substrates are activated in the brain among different types of Italian–German
bilinguals?
17. Larson-Hall (2004): Do learners perform differently in their ability to perceive phonemic
contrasts in nonwords in the second language depending on their proficiency level and
on the sounds that are contrasted?

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