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Need help with my dissertation study

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Emoshen · 12/04/2021 11:55

Need help with my Dissertation- “for Data Collection”
Seeking Native Speakers of English for my control group- “The Task is filling in a survey” (10 mins at most)

spellout.net/ibexexps/emineerengezen/OfflineTaskNativeSpeakersOfEnglish/experiment.html

Hello,

I hope you are well.

I am a mom of an 18 months’ toddler. Because of the pandemic, I work from home, which is very hard with my son looking for his mommy all the time. I work as a research assistant at a university and study my Ph.D.
Could you please help me by doing the questionnaire which takes 10 minutes at most? You can find the details below. Thanks in advance.

For further info, please check below:

I am a PhD candidate in English Language Teaching and I research Second Language Acquisition under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Martina Gračanin Yüksek at the Department of English Language Education, Institute of Social Sciences, Middle East Technical University. I study the acquisition and processing of anaphors within some grammatical structures in English. I'm conducting an online questionnaire (self-paced reading experiment) to find empirical evidence to verify my hypotheses.My research is comprised ofan offline self-paced reading task (time-measuring questionnaire). I need native speakers of English for my control group.

I was hoping that you could perhaps help me get the questionnaire out to a few more people. I'm aiming for a sample of people with native speakers of English for my control group.

Thequestionnaire can be reached via the following link,I imagine it will take only around 10 minutes to complete:
spellout.net/ibexexps/emineerengezen/OfflineTaskNativeSpeakersOfEnglish/experiment.html

I would be very grateful if you could send the survey link to some of your students or anyone else you think might enjoy this questionnaire. Anyone who speaks English as their mother tongue is fit to my questionnaire for my control group.

Please do not do the experiment on a device without a keyboard because you will need to use the “space bar” and the “number buttons” to proceed in the questionnaire.

If you complete the relevant questionnaire, your identity will be kept anonymous. You will not be asked for any confidential information such as passwords of something. Only some demographic information is asked which is necessary for the study as well.Your answers will be kept confidential and will be evaluated by only the researchers. The results will be used only in scientific publications. The survey does not contain any disturbing items. However, if you feel disturbed because of the sentences you read or for any other reason during the study, you are free to leave the survey undone.

If you have questions about the questionnaires or my research and thesis, please feel free to get in touch! (Or if you experience any issues accessing the links or the task, please let me know too!)

Many thanks in advance, I really appreciate any help I may receive!

Kind regards

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RuggerDownHere · 17/04/2021 18:08

@Emoshen I completed the questionnaire for you, it sounds like an interesting topic.

With regard to a lot of the questions they can be interpreted both ways so with "Alice ridiculed herself, and Kevin did too" it can been seen that Kevin ridiculed Alice, or Kevin ridiculed himself. As there is no context beyond the statement it is hard to say which way it is. I don't know if that helps at all or not.

Emoshen · 18/04/2021 13:19

@RuggerDownHere thank you very much. Yes, it is an interesting topic:). But, please do not mention the details so it does not affect other people who want to do the survey.
If you like, I can give you the details about my study once I finish the data collection.
Anyways, thanks for doing it, it means a lot to me. Could you please send the link to the people who might be interested?

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PennyRoyal · 18/04/2021 13:27

Accessing survey from phone via app, cannot press 'space bar' to continue.

iklboo · 18/04/2021 13:27

I tried but I'm on the app so I can't advance beyond 'press the space bar', sorry. I'll try later when I can get to the desktop version.

Emoshen · 18/04/2021 17:28

Thanks @PennyRoyal and @iklboo. Yes, unfortunately, you need to have a device with a keyboard to proceed in the survey. That's one drawback of the experiment. I would really appreciate it if you did it when you get the desktop.

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