Humorous video clips improve Iranian undergraduate EFL learners' idiom achievement compared with conventional instruction without clips¶

Claim · All claims
Evidence · 1 study · causal r2 · q2
Currency · newest study 2017 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q2 i? After a two-month treatment, the experimental group taught with humorous video clips significantly outperformed the control group on a 40-item idiom posttest. → Malihe Neissari 2017

Evidence¶

Malihe Neissari 2017¶

Malihe Neissari, Hamid Ashraf & Mohammad Reza Ghorbani. (2017). Humorous Videos and Idiom Achievement: Some Pedagogical Considerations for EFL Learners. Iranian Journal of Language Teaching Research, 5(3), 109-127. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1156181

q2 · i? · causal · r2

Quasi-experimental nonequivalent intact-groups study at the University of Bojnord: 33 experimental and 28 control participants sat a 40-item fill-in-the-blank posttest after 14 weeks. An independent-samples t-test showed the EG (M = 32.90) significantly exceeded the CG (M = 26.14), t(59) = 7.11, p = 0.00; no effect size was reported.

"there was a significant difference between the EG ( M = 32.90, SD = 3.44) and the CG [ M = 26.14, SD = 3.97; t (59) = 7.11, p = 0.00] after the treatme nt."

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

• Iranian undergraduate EFL learners taught idioms with humorous video clips hold positive attitudes toward their classroom use — related
• Before treatment, the experimental and control groups did not differ significantly on idiom pretest scores — possibly the same claim (merge candidate)