Explicit affective strategy training significantly improved Iranian pre-intermediate EFL learners' oral language proficiency compared with a placebo control group¶

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Evidence · 1 study · causal r2 · q3
Currency · newest study 2016 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q3 i? After six weeks of explicit affective strategy instruction, the experimental group significantly outperformed the control group on the oral post-test (p<0.05). → Mostafavi and Vahdany 2016

Evidence¶

Mostafavi and Vahdany 2016¶

Fatemeh Mostafavi, Fereidoon Vahdany. (2016). The Effect of Explicit Affective Strategy Training on Iranian EFL learners' Oral Language Proficiency and Anxiety Reduction. Advances in Language and Literary Studies 7(4). https://doi.org/10.7575/aiac.alls.v.7n.4p.197

q3 · i? · causal · r2

Independent-samples t-test comparing post-test oral scores of the experimental group (mean 4.53, SD 1.63) and control group (mean 3.56, SD 1.52), each n=30, after the experimental group received "six weeks of affective strategy instruction". The difference was significant (p<0.05); no effect size was printed.

"The results of independent samples t-test for the post-test scores in tables 4.9, and 4.10 indicated that there was a significant difference between the two groups in their post- test (p<0.05)."

Discussion¶

Learner Variables¶

• Oral Language — outcome: instruction changes it

Related Claims¶

• Explicit affective strategy training significantly raised Iranian EFL learners' level of anxiety control relative to the control group by the end of the study — related
• The experimental group's anxiety control changed significantly from pre- to post-treatment while the control group's did not — related