[简答题]目前，越来越多的外语教师已不满足于只当一名“教书匠”，而在教书育人的同时搞一些科研工作。搞科研就需要掌握一些科研方法，其中很重要的一种方法就是懂得并掌握一些必要的统计方法，以便能够对所获得的数据进行分析、处理，并以此为根据进行科学的推断或决策。

参考答案: Nowadays, a growing number of foreign language teachers are not content to be merely "pedagogues", they are engaged in some scientific research work while teaching students. Doing scientific research work involves mastering some research methods, among which a very important method is to know and master some necessary statistical methods so that one can analyze and process the data acquired and make a scientific inference and decision on the basis of them.