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How Often Is Often? Reference Ambiguities of the Likert-Scale in Language Learning Strategy Research.
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Gu, Yongqi; And Others – 1995
Based on personal experience, this paper examines the ambiguities of the Likert-type 5-point scale in learning strategy elicitation. Four parallel questionnaires consisting of the same batch of 20 items taken from the Oxford scale (1990) were administered among a group of 120 tertiary level, non-English majors in China. Questionnaire 1 used the…
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