Within the experimental groups, the humour-based memory strategy operated more efficiently with older participants than with younger ones¶

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Subclaims¶

q2 i? The authors state that the joke-telling strategy worked more efficiently for older participants than younger ones in this experiment. → Sanchez 2018

Evidence¶

Sanchez 2018¶

Sanchez, A. C. & Magro, L. J. C. (2018). Humour in the teaching of English and German equivocal words. Cypriot Journal of Educational Sciences, 13(4), 645-653. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1202228

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Authors' conclusion drawn from the post-test figures of the four-group pilot study; the sentence is an interpretive summary rather than a tested statistic, and no effect size is printed.

"the use of this memory improvement strategy, in this experiment, operates more efficiently with the older participants than with the younger"

Discussion¶

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