EFL learners who received metadiscourse instruction scored significantly higher on a speaking posttest than learners who received no such instruction¶

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Currency · newest study 2014 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q3 i? After four sessions of metadiscourse instruction, the experimental group's speaking posttest scores were significantly higher than the control group's (p = .010). → Touran Ahour & Saeideh Entezari Maleki 2014

Evidence¶

Touran Ahour & Saeideh Entezari Maleki 2014¶

Touran Ahour & Saeideh Entezari Maleki. (2014). The Effect of Metadiscourse Instruction on Iranian EFL Learners' Speaking Ability. English Language Teaching, 7(10). http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/elt.v7n10p69

q3 · i? · causal · r2

Independent samples t-test on PET speaking posttest scores of 17 experimental and 17 control participants, reported in Results section 3.4.2. The posttest means were 24.24 (experimental) and 20.06 (control); the article reports "a significant difference between the groups" with no effect size printed.

"The sig. (2-tailed) value was 0.01 at 32 degrees of freedom. It was lower than 0.05 significance level. Thus, there is a significant difference between the groups."

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

• The control group showed no statistically significant change in speaking scores from pretest to posttest — related
• The experimental group's speaking scores improved significantly from pretest to posttest after metadiscourse instruction — related
• The experimental and control groups were statistically homogeneous in speaking ability before the treatment — related