In one Iranian study of two high-school EFL classes, the class taught with 21st century skills scored significantly higher in speaking than the class taught traditionally¶

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Currency · newest study 2017 · checked against its sources 2026-11-01 (automated, 1 of 1 entry) · not reviewed by a person

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q2 i? In two intact classes of female second-grade high school EFL students in Birjand, Iran (n = 55, convenience sample), the class taught speaking via 21st century skills scored significantly higher on a national speaking post-test than the class taught traditionally (p = 0.006). → Ashraf 2017

Evidence¶

Ashraf 2017¶

Ashraf, H., Ahmadi, F., & Hosseinnia, M. (2017). Integrating 21st Century Skills into Teaching English: Investigating its Effect on Listening and Speaking Skills. i-manager's Journal on English Language Teaching, 7(4). https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1173769

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Independent samples t-test on speaking post-test scores of 55 female second-grade high school students in two intact classes in Birjand, Iran (convenience sampling; the article gives the split as 25/30, with the methods and abstract assigning the 25 to opposite groups), after 12 sessions of treatment by the same teacher; the article reports "p-value = 0.006 < α = 0.05". Descriptives: control mean 9.45 (SD 3.30), experimental mean 12.30 (SD 2.40). One study in one school and population; it does not establish the effect for EFL instruction generally.

"results of the t-test indicated that there was a significant difference between the mean scores of the control and experimental groups in post-test because: p-value = 0.006 < α = 0.05."

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