The application of structural equation modeling in the applied linguistics research

摘要

Structural equation model is the only statistical methods that can simultaneously do comprehensive examination about the relationships between the multi-dimensional variables. It has broad application prospects in the field of applied linguistics. In this paper, combined with the applied linguistics article that choose structural equation modeling as the technique on academic journals over the past decades, then discussing the differences in domestic and foreign researchers from both content and form, after comparison and analysis, putting forward the suggestions for the application of SEM in our domestic applied linguistics.