A 6-week fluency workshop increases EFL learners' cued recall of target multiword expressions significantly more than a general English class¶

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Evidence · 1 study · causal r2 · q3 · i3 large
Currency · newest study 2017 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q3 i3 Experimental-group learners gained significantly more productive knowledge of target multiword expressions on a cloze test than control-group learners over 6 weeks. → Thomson 2017

Evidence¶

Thomson 2017¶

Haidee Thomson. (2017). Building Speaking Fluency with Multiword Expressions. TESL Canada Journal/Revue TESL du Canada, 34(3). https://doi.org/10.18806/tesl.v34i3.1272

q3 · i3 · causal · r2

Quasi-experimental pre/post study with 73 Japanese engineering-university EFL students in intact classes. Gain scores on a 30-item multiword expression cloze test showed the experimental group gained significantly more, "t(71) = -5.71, p = .000, d = 1.41".

"productive knowledge of target expressions had increased significantly more for the experimental group (n = 44) M = 7.63, SD = 4.12, than for the control group (n = 29) M = 2.55, SD = 3.01, t(71) = -5.71, p = .000, d = 1.41"

Discussion¶

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