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