In-classroom physical activity breaks significantly improve primary school children's foreign language learning¶

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q3 i3 IcPAB showed a statistically significant, moderate to large effect on foreign language learning (SMD = 0.80, p = 0.008). → Peiris D. L. I. H. K. 2022

Evidence¶

Peiris D. L. I. H. K. 2022¶

Peiris D. L. I. H. K., Duan Yanping, Vandelanotte Corneel, Liang Wei, Yang Min, Baker Julien Steven. (2022). Effects of In-Classroom Physical Activity Breaks on Children’s Academic Performance, Cognition, Health Behaviours and Health Outcomes: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomised Controlled Trials. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19159479

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Meta-analysis of two intervention samples (n = 137 students) from a single Swiss RCT (Schmidt et al.) in which children enacted movements while learning French animal words. The pooled SMD = 0.80 was significant (p = 0.008) with I2 = 64% heterogeneity.

"The analysis reported a statistically significant, moderate to large effect size (SMD = 0.80, 95% CI [0.21 to 1.39], p = 0.008) for foreign language learning (Panel 4 in Figure 2) with a moderate to substantial amount of heterogeneity (I2 = 64%, p = 0.09)"

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