Cross-linguistic consciousness-raising significantly improves EFL learners' proper use of adverb position in translation¶

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q3 i? Experimental-group learners showed significant pre-to-post improvement in correct adverb placement in the translation test, exceeding control-group gains. → Seyyed Yavar Hosseininik & Hamid Rahmani Sangani 2014

Evidence¶

Seyyed Yavar Hosseininik & Hamid Rahmani Sangani 2014¶

Seyyed Yavar Hosseininik & Hamid Rahmani Sangani. (2014). The Influence of Explicit Cross-Linguistic Consciousness-Raising on the EL Writing of the Iranian English Language Learners. Advances in Language and Literary Studies 5(3). https://doi.org/10.7575/aiac.alls.v.5n.3p.147

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Paired t-test on translation-test adverb position: experimental group t = -9.019, df = 27, p = .000; control group t = -4.194, p = .000. The article reports the mean difference "is in favor of the experimental group."

"Table 4 shows that, for the experimental group’s performance over the pre-test and the post, the obtained value for p with 27 degrees of freedom at the 0.05 level of significance is .000."

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