Control-group students taught with conventional coursebook vocabulary tasks showed a 2.8% decrease in scores over the same period¶

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q2 i? The control class following the curriculum's conventional vocabulary practice declined by 2.8% between pre-test and post-test, with only one student scoring 100% in the post-test. → 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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Descriptive pre-test/post-test result for the control class (n=14) at the 3rd Primary school of Orestiada, which practised vocabulary only through Student's Book and Workbook tasks. The 2,8% decrease is reported descriptively with no test statistic.

"the performance of the students of the control group, who had to follow the conventional vocabulary teaching method, suggested by the school curriculum for the 4th grade, met with a 2,8% decrease"

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