Statistical Significance Testing in Second Language Research: Basic Problems and Suggestions for Reform

By J. Norris. 2015

93 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Language and Linguistics

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In Artificial Intelligence

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2. F. Oswald
3. Ali H. Al-Hoorie
4. Joseph P. Vitta
5. Stuart Mclean
6. J. Stewart
7. Luke Plonsky
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In Developmental and Educational Psychology

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2. F. Oswald
3. Joseph P. Vitta
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6. Luke Plonsky
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In Language and Linguistics

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2. F. Oswald
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4. Youjin Kim
5. Luke Plonsky
6. R. Norouzian
7. Stuart Mclean
8. J. Stewart

Citations in the corpus

• Predicting L2 reading proficiency with modalities of vocabulary knowledge: A bootstrapping approach (2020, background): “Beyond this, even when statistical power is sufficient, correlations can vary greatly from study to study due to variability between individual observations (Glass & Hopkins, 1996; Norris, 2015), which could change between specific test forms.”
• The seven sins of L2 research: A review of 30 journals’ statistical quality and their CiteScore, SJR, SNIP, JCR Impact Factors (2019, background): “Second, assumption checking seems consistently overlooked in L2 research, despite repeated calls emphasizing its importance (e.g. Lindstromberg, 2016; Loewen & Gass, 2009; Nassaji, 2012; Norris, 2015; Norris et al., 2015; Plonsky, 2014; Plonsky & Gass, 2011).”
• MULTIPLE REGRESSION AS A FLEXIBLE ALTERNATIVE TO ANOVA IN L2 RESEARCH (2016, background): “A useful alternative or supplement would be to report and interpret effect sizes and associated confidence intervals (for recent overviews on this issue, see Cumming, 2012; Norris, 2015; Plonsky, 2015b).”
• Task-Based Learner Production: A Substantive and Methodological Review (2016, background): “The field of L2 research has also been weakened by dogmatic adherence to and overuse of null hypothesis significance testing (see Norris, 2015; Plonsky, 2015b), a problem compounded by the small samples common to the field (Plonsky, 2014).”
• Eta- and partial eta-squared in L2 research: A cautionary review and guide to more appropriate usage (2018, methodology): “Historically, the field has relied very heavily on statistical significance and null hypothesis significance testing (p values; see Norris, 2015; Plonsky 2015).”