Low-achievement 4th-grade students who practised English vocabulary with computer games raised their achievement by 38.7% on average over 24 weeks¶

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q2 i? In a 24-week pre-test/post-test comparison, experimental-group students who had scored lowest on the pre-test raised their achievement by 38.7% on average after practising vocabulary with computer games. → Vasileiadou and Makrina 2017

Evidence¶

Vasileiadou and Makrina 2017¶

Ioanna Vasileiadou & Zafiri Makrina. (2017). Using Online Computer Games in the ELT Classroom: A Case Study. English Language Teaching, 10(12). https://doi.org/10.5539/elt.v10n12p134

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Quasi-experimental Independent Measures pre-test/post-test comparison of two intact 4th-grade classes in different Greek primary schools; the experimental class (n=19) practised vocabulary with online games. The article reports the 38,7% average rise descriptively, with no test statistic or standardized effect size.

"students who were exposed to differentiated instruction and used computer games as a means of practicing vocabulary, managed within a period of 24 weeks to raise their achievement by 38,7% on average"

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