The experimental and control groups were statistically homogeneous in speaking ability before the treatment¶

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q3 i? An independent samples t-test on speaking pretest scores found no significant difference between the groups (Sig. (2-tailed) = .076, df = 32). → Touran Ahour & Saeideh Entezari Maleki 2014

Evidence¶

Touran Ahour & Saeideh Entezari Maleki 2014¶

Touran Ahour & Saeideh Entezari Maleki. (2014). The Effect of Metadiscourse Instruction on Iranian EFL Learners' Speaking Ability. English Language Teaching, 7(10). http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/elt.v7n10p69

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Independent samples t-test comparing the speaking pretest means of the control (M = 18.00) and experimental (M = 20.18) groups, each n = 17, reported in Results section 3.3 to establish homogeneity before instruction. No effect size is printed.

"Also, the Sig. (2-tailed) was .076 at 32 degrees of freedom. It was higher than 0.05."

Discussion¶

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