Cultural And Linguistic Boundaries And Influence

A questionnaire is a list of a research or survey questions asked to respondents, and designed to extract quantitative date. Questionnaires are easily distributed to the community and can be completed and collected on the spot or be emailed or posted back to the researcher. Self completed questionnaires are the most common survey as they are cheap and can be passed to a lot of people. Some sociologists tend not to use questionnaires because of their low response rate and lack of validity. Also, some people may give false information so some researchers like to stick to interviews and experiments for increased accuracy. I will explore why sociologists shy away from using questionnaires.

Similarly, there exist several sources for measurement of error: the questionnaire, the data collection method, the interviewer, and the respondent. The questionnaire utilized was not provided in the report. Therefore, evaluation of the question wording effects and the response categories for questions cannot be made. However, according to the Pew Research, translation was carefully cared out in a multi-step process and data collection was meticulously recorded.

This information is collected through the use of standardized procedures so that every participant is asked the same questions in the same way. It involves asking people for information in some structured format. Depending on what is being analyzed, the participants being surveyed may be representing themselves, their employer, or some organization to which they belong. A survey can be administered in a couple of different ways. In a survey research, the researcher selects a sample of respondents from a population and administers a standardized questionnaire to them.

Although the language individuals use reflects our identity, language use is not static and changes according to context. This is

The word “community” is usually defined as a group of people living together in the same area and having some common characteristics, such as language, physical appearance and religion. In The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin, the common characteristics that form the Aboriginals’ tribal communities are familial ties and their culture (similar form of lifestyle, similar beliefs and similar traditions); while in Gilgamesh it is the city-state they belong to and their settled lifestyle that holds the community together. Another difference in the two works is that the society in The Songlines does not have a hierarchal monarchy that Gilgamesh has, but instead has everyone as equals for the most part. However,

Although the class has not had input into the methodology used to collect the data for this report it is still important for us to know why these methods were used. Questionnaires can be useful in order to get opinions and views from a large groups of people (McLeod 2014), such like conditions for the research for this reports. This can be useful as this can be an easier way of targeting a larger audience other than in interview purposes. This will also be more time consuming as everyone is answering the same questions.

My choices of questionnaire as a primary method enabled me to provide myself with a range of perspectives as the respondents were not only Persian but all had different cultural backgrounds which further constructed my cross-cultural element. Next time I will take into consideration of making the wording of my questions more simplistic and easier to understand, since some respondents were unable to process the purpose and intent of the questions. I conducted interviewees with three Persian women who have migrated to Australia and valuable input. The interview process was a strong and successful component of my research findings however in reflection, next time I will submit my questions electronically, which can save me more time and possibly provide more accurate and honest results. With the uniqueness of my research, there was little secondary information, which was available to further enhance my research. Whilst the secondary information did not explain my research word by word, I was able to extract the relevant information of the content into my own. As a personal reflection I solely wrote from my own beliefs and perspectives of my topic but it would have been an advantage writing down my ideas before hand to put a clear and logical flow in my results and

The units used for quantifying variable data should be consistent throughout the study. Data collected through survey instruments should be treated in a manner that accurately reflects the intended goals of the study. For example, answers to survey questions, such as ethnic identity, may retrieve more than one answer. How the researchers handle this situation may have an impact on the relevance of the findings.

“Problems researched with the use of appropriate methods greatly enhance the value of the research.” (Sekaran, 2003) Data can be collected through interviews, questionnaires, observations, and through other techniques, like projective tests. In even more detail, interviews can be conducted in a variety of different ways such as over the phone, through the computer, interviews through the electronic media, and face-to-face. Questionnaires can be conducted personally or administered electronically. “Interviewing, administering questionnaires, and observing people and phenomena are the three main data collection methods in survey research.” (Sekaran, 2003) As stated before, data can be collected in many different ways; however the value of the research is only greatly enhanced when personal opinions and bias is left out of the collection of data.

Everyone has a different way of life, whether it be by the way you talk, dress, or eat. Or maybe how you dance, sing, and perform. These aspects of everyday life is called culture. Everybody in the world has a culture, but not all cultures are the same from person to person. In the book, The Miles Between, a group of teens, who attend a boarding school, have a different way of life than I do. Even though there is many differences between our cultures, there are still some similarities peeping through all the differences.

The article titled “Cultural and Linguistic Diversity and the Special Education Workforce: A Critical Overview” by Naomi C. Tyler, Zina Yzquierdo, Norma Lopez-Reyna, and Susan Sanders Flippin for The Journal of Special Education, addresses the great need for more diversity among teachers in the field of special education. The article begins with historical background. According to the article, “only 14% of special education classroom teachers are from historically underrepresented groups compared to approximately 38% of the students in their classrooms” (Tyler, Yzquierdo, Lopez-Reyna, & Sanders Flippin, 2004). Obviously, this is a problem because of the troubling fact that “students from [Culturally and Linguistically Diverse] CLD backgrounds

According to Lev Vygotsky (1978), language plays a central role in social interaction since it is the primary means for making social

This week is very significant; it is practice time. I get to create my own survey. I chose to be creative although I had to face some challenges and issues. I developed a survey containing 10 different questions.

Considering the above facts, the present study adopts the Descriptive Simple Survey Design. A simple survey was initially conducted to collect basic demographic information as well as to understand certain specific socio-cultural indicators.

In survey method research, participants answer questions administered through interviews or questionnaires. After participants answer the questions, researchers describe the responses given. In order for the survey to be both reliable and valid it is important that the questions are constructed properly. Questions should be written so they are clear and easy to comprehend.