The fluency gain's cause is unresolved: it may reflect lexical bundles instruction or simply more paragraph writing practice¶

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Evidence · 1 study · causal r1 · q1
Currency · newest study 2012 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q1 i? The authors acknowledge that the experimental group's improvement may have been due to more paragraph writing practice rather than to lexical bundles instruction itself. → Ranjbar 2012

Evidence¶

Ranjbar 2012¶

Ranjbar, N., Pazhakh, A., & Gorjian, B. (2012). The Effect of Lexical Bundles on Iranian EFL Learners Linguistic Production Fluency. International Education Studies, 5(4). https://doi.org/10.5539/ies.v5n4p243

q1 · i? · causal · r1

Authors' stated limitation in the conclusion of the Dehloran study: the design cannot separate the effect of bundle instruction from the effect of additional paragraph-writing practice, and no evidence or analysis is offered to resolve the question.

"Another suggestion for further research is to consider whether the improvement of the experimental group students was due to the independent variable of the stud y, lexical bundles teaching methodology or was due to more paragraph writing practice."

Discussion¶

Learner Variables¶

• Writing Skills — outcome: instruction changes it

Related Claims¶

• Lexical bundles instruction significantly improved Iranian EFL learners' paragraph writing production fluency from pretest to posttest — related
• Experimental group outperformed control group on paragraph writing fluency at posttest — related