Preview of Learning Needs: Class Exercise B

Is there a relationship between passing a traditional syntax test and the results of a grammaticality judgment test? The data in the contingency table below, from Jacqueline Schachter (1988), represent the results of the two tests given to 21 Korean-speaking learners of English.

                                                    Syntax text

                    pass        fail

Gram.      pass       13           2
Judg.
Test       fail       43          26

 

Answer the following questions: 

  1. Are Schachter's data of the right type to perform Chi-Square?
     
     
  2. What are the degrees of freedom?
     
     
  3. Hand-calculate the Chi-Square and write the result below.
     
     
  4. Would you need to employ a correction for continuity for these data?
     
     
  5. Is the result significant at p<.01?
     
     
  6. Think through the operationalization of the variables. How informative is the information? Can you suggest some alternative operationalization?