Teaching phrasal verbs through pictures significantly improves pre-intermediate EFL learners' active application of phrasal verbs in speaking¶

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Evidence · 1 study · causal r2 · q3 · i2 medium
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q3 i2 Pre-intermediate EFL learners taught 24 phrasal verbs with pictures used significantly more of them in a speaking posttest than learners taught the same items without pictures (Cohen's d = 0.76). → Marashi and Maherinia 2011

Evidence¶

Marashi and Maherinia 2011¶

Hamid Marashi, Elaheh Maherinia. (2011). The Effect of Teaching Phrasal Verbs through Pictures on EFL Learners' Active Application of Phrasal Verbs in Speaking. i-manager's Journal of English Language Teaching, Vol. 1 No. 2, April-June 2011. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1071191

q3 · i2 · causal · r2

Randomized experiment with 60 pre-intermediate learners (30 per group) homogenized by PET and taught the same content over 18 sessions; pictures only in the experimental group. Posttest means were 6.37 (experimental) versus 3.40 (control); the independent-samples t-test gave "the p value was 0.00" with t = -9.017, and "the observed power (Cohen's d) stood at 0.76".

"Since the p value was 0.00 which is smaller than 0.05, there was a significant difference between the mean scores of the two groups at the posttest."

Discussion¶

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