Learners did not gain more vocabulary from favored-context (sport) passages than from disfavored-context (geography) passages; the favored-context hypothesis was rejected¶

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q2 i? The paired t-test for geography pretest-posttest scores (t = -18.3) was larger in magnitude than that for sport scores (t = -16), so participants did not perform better in favored sport passages; hypothesis 1 was rejected and hypothesis 2 confirmed. → Rezaei and Dezhara 2011

Evidence¶

Rezaei and Dezhara 2011¶

Omid Rezaei, Salman Dezhara. (2011). An Investigation of the Possible Effects of Favored Contexts in Second Language Vocabulary Acquisition. English Language Teaching, 4(4). https://doi.org/10.5539/elt.v4n4p97

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Two paired t-tests (24 d.f.) on the experimental group's sport and geography pretest-posttest scores, both significant at the 0.05 level. The article reports t = -16 for sport and t = -18.3 for geography, concluding participants "have not performed better in sport passages than geography ones"; hypothesis 1 was rejected and hypothesis 2 confirmed.

"As it can be inferred from the difference between the t-value obtained from scores of sport pretest and posttest (-16) and t-value obtained from scores of geography pretest and posttest (-18.3), it could be concluded that the participants have not performed better in sport passages than geography ones."

Discussion¶

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