Regression Models in an ESL Context: Issues in Construction and Interpretation. A Researcher Comments....

Zhang, Shuqiang; And Others

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ERIC Number: EJ443062

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1992

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Regression Models in an ESL Context: Issues in Construction and Interpretation. A Researcher Comments....

Zhang, Shuqiang; And Others

TESOL Quarterly, v26 n1 p191-96 Spr 1992

Multiple regression analysis is discussed as useful for studying the effect of a variable while controlling for the effects of others and for estimating the total effect of all predictor variables together. It is suggested that in English-as-a-Second-Language proficiency measurement, regression coefficients should not be the basis for judging predictor variables. (two references) (Author/LB)

Descriptors: Correlation, English (Second Language), Evaluation Problems, Language Research, Predictive Measurement, Predictor Variables, Regression (Statistics), Research Methodology, Research Problems

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers

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Language: English

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