Journal entry practice enhancement activities outperform general vocabulary exercises for learning ESP technical vocabulary¶

Claim · All claims
Evidence · 1 study · causal r2 · q2
Currency · newest study 2018 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q2 i? The experimental group B (mean 153.1) outperformed the control group A (mean 139.5) on the post-test of 50 accounting vocabulary items. → Xu 2018

Evidence¶

Xu 2018¶

Liju Xu. (2018). Learning and Retaining Technical Vocabulary with Enhancement Activities in an ESP Course. English Language Teaching, 11(10). https://doi.org/10.5539/elt.v11n10p145

q2 · i? · causal · r2

Quasi-experiment with 200 accounting juniors randomly assigned to two groups of 100 after proficiency homogenization; the article reports the post-test means in Table 1, where "the experimental group B (with mean score 153.1) outperformed the control group A (with mean score 139.5)". No effect size or significance test for the between-group contrast is printed.

"However, the experimental group B (with mean score 153.1) outperformed the control group A (with mean score 139.5)."

Discussion¶

Learner Variables¶

• Vocabulary — outcome: instruction changes it

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