The article reports a significant mediating effect of gender on the role of sight translation in reading ability acquisition, while its own printed posttest means for females and males are nearly identical¶

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Subclaims¶

q2 i? The article states the female group's mean posttest reading ability was significantly higher than the male group's, interpreting this as gender slightly modifying the effect of sight translation. → Fatollahi 2016 q2 i? The printed Independent Samples T-test for the two sexes' posttest scores reports Sig(2-tailed) 0.975, which contradicts the claimed significant difference. → Fatollahi 2016

Evidence¶

Fatollahi 2016¶

Moslem Fatollahi. (2016). Applying Sight Translation as a Means to Enhance Reading Ability of Iranian EFL Students. English Language Teaching, 9(3). https://doi.org/10.5539/elt.v9n3p153

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Posttest comparison of the two sexes (38 females, 32 males) via Independent Samples T-test (Table 6, Sig. 0.975; means 30.74 vs 30.69). The article's prose claims "significantly higher" for females, but the printed test statistic and near-identical means do not support that claim.

"In other words, the mean score of posttest reading ability of the female group is significantly higher than that of the ma le group. This is to say that gender slightly modifies the effect of sight translation on reading comprehension improvement of the participants."

Discussion¶

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