1. Quantitative and Qualitative Methods
Sebastian M. Rasinger
Research Methods in Linguistics. An Introduction.
Second Edition
London: Bloomsbury
S.M.Rasinger Quantitative Research in Linguistics. 2e. Bloomsbury.

2. Theoretical concepts (and definition)
idea
Topic
Research question/s
Theoretical concepts (and definition)
Methodology:
what kind of data?
how to collect data?
potential problems
Result/conclusions
Analysis
how?
Data
S.M.Rasinger Quantitative Research in Linguistics. 2e. Bloomsbury.

3. theory  hypotheses  data  confirm/reject H
Quantitative data
can be put into numbers
can be used for statistic analysis
NOT necessarily ‘much data’
Deductive:
theory  hypotheses  data  confirm/reject H
Examples of quantitative variables
people’s age
children
sex
S.M.Rasinger Quantitative Research in Linguistics. 2e. Bloomsbury.

4. Reliability of quant. data
Does data match expectations and/or previous research?
Various complex statistical methods
Best method for first judgement: use common sense!
Are results from sample ‘off’ in some way?
Even worse, is your sample ‘off’?
S.M.Rasinger Quantitative Research in Linguistics. 2e. Bloomsbury.

5. Qualitative data ‘words’, ‘text’, ‘qualities’, ‘patterns’
how is something, rather than how much
interpretative
inductive: theory is derived from the research results
S.M.Rasinger Quantitative Research in Linguistics. 2e. Bloomsbury.

6. General issues Whatever method you use: PILOT it!! What’s going well?
What’s going horribly wrong?
Why have things gone wrong? Is it your instrument? Is it you? Is it both?
Adjust accordingly and, ideally, pilot again
S.M.Rasinger Quantitative Research in Linguistics. 2e. Bloomsbury.