Genre-based instruction produces significantly better post-test writing performance than traditional instruction for Iranian EFL learners¶

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Currency · newest study 2015 · checked against its sources 2026-11-02 (automated, 1 of 1 entry) · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q2 i? After sixteen hours of instruction, the experimental group significantly outperformed the control group on the post-writing test. → Kalali and Pishkar 2015

Evidence¶

Kalali and Pishkar 2015¶

Nazanin Naderi Kalali, Kian Pishkar. (2015). Genre Analysis and Writing Skill: Improving Iranian EFL Learners Writing Performance through the Tenets of Genre Analysis. Advances in Language and Literary Studies 6(6). http://dx.doi.org/10.7575/aiac.alls.v.6n.6p.119

q2 · i? · causal · r2

Independent-samples t-test on holistic post-writing scores of 15 experimental vs 15 control Iranian EFL learners after sixteen hours of genre-based vs traditional instruction. The article reports "significant differences between the performances of the two groups" on the post-writing test.

"Table 7 indicated to significant differences between the performances of the two groups of experimental and control on the post-writing test. It means th at genre-based instruction influenced the process of reading proficiency of the writing-based participants."

Discussion¶

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