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Synchronous online forum discussion produces no statistically significant difference in syntactic complexity compared with asynchronous blog writing, though the OFD mean was slightly higher

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q2 i? Post-test syntactic complexity did not differ significantly (OFD M = 0.70 vs blog M = 0.66; t(54) = 1.22, p = 0.21). → Jayaron Jose & Mohammed Jafre Zainol Abidin 2016

Evidence

Jayaron Jose & Mohammed Jafre Zainol Abidin 2016

Jayaron Jose & Mohammed Jafre Zainol Abidin. (2016). A Pedagogical Perspective on Promoting English as a Foreign Language Writing through Online Forum Discussions. English Language Teaching, 9(2). https://doi.org/10.5539/elt.v9n2p84

q2 · i? · causal · r1

Post-test t-test on syntactic complexity (clauses per T-unit) between OFD (M = 0.70, SD = 0.13) and blog (M = 0.66, SD = 0.13) groups; the article reports "no significant difference between both the groups". No effect size printed.

"The statistical analysis (Table 7) finds that there is no significant difference between both the groups t (54) =1.22, p = 0.21 (p > .05)."

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