The fluency workshop did not increase trimmed speech rate significantly more than a general English class, though the experimental group alone showed a significant pre-to-post increase¶

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Evidence · 1 study (2 entries) · causal r1–r2 · q3 · i2 medium
Currency · newest study 2017 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q3 i? The treatment-by-time interaction for trimmed speech rate was not statistically significant, so the two conditions did not differ in how much their speech rate increased. → Thomson 2017 q3 i2 The experimental group's speech rate increased significantly from pretest to posttest (23.3%), while the control group's 12.3% increase was not significant. → Thomson 2017 (2)

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 · i? · causal · r1

Repeated measures ANOVA on 23 dyadic role-play recordings (15 experimental, 8 control pairs). A significant main effect for time was found, but the interaction "F(1,21) = 0.454, p = .51, η2 = .02" showed no group difference in increase.

"the interaction between treatment and speech rate (the difference in increase between the two groups) was not statistically significant F(1,21) = 0.454, p = .51, η2 = .02"

Thomson 2017 (2)¶

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 · i2 · causal · r2

Paired-samples t-tests on trimmed speech rate (syllables per minute) for each group separately. The experimental increase was significant with "t(14) = 3.28, p = .006, d = 0.63"; the control increase was not significant.

"the experimental group's speech rate in the present study increased by 23.3%, a significant increase according to a paired samples t-test, t(14) = 3.28, p = .006, d = 0.63, and the control group increased by 12.3%, t(7) = -0.70, p = .507, d = 0.34"

Discussion¶

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