Debate contributed 96.1% to speaking skill achievement, with fluency the largest contributing aspect (67.4%)¶
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q2 i? Stepwise regression showed the whole aspects of speaking skill contributed 0.961 (96.1%) to speaking achievement, with fluency contributing 67.4%, grammar 13.7%, pronunciation 8.3%, comprehension 5.4%, and vocabulary 1.4%. → Iman 2017
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Iman 2017¶
Iman, J. N. (2017). Debate Instruction in EFL Classroom: Impacts on the Critical Thinking and Speaking Skill. International Journal of Instruction, 10(4), 87-108. https://doi.org/10.12973/iji.2017.1046a
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Stepwise regression analysis on the study's SOLOM-based speaking data (Table 5, final model R = .980, adjusted R Square .950). The contribution percentages are printed as reported; they are variance-explanation figures, not standardized effect sizes.
"the influence of contribution of the whole aspects of Speaking Skill (SS) was 0.961 or 96.1%. Partially, the contribution of each aspect of Speak ing Skill (SS) toward Speaking Skill (SS) achievement was as follows: fluency was 67.4%, grammar was 13.7%, pronunciation was 8.3%, comprehension was 5.4%, and vocabulary was 1.4%"
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