Before instruction, the experimental and control groups did not differ significantly in request speech act use¶

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q2 i? The pretest means (control 16.30, experimental 17.10) showed no significant difference at the 0.05 level (p = 0.070), establishing group homogeneity prior to treatment. → Masouleh et al. 2014

Evidence¶

Masouleh et al. 2014¶

Fatemeh Abdollahizadeh Masouleh, Masoumeh Arjmandi, Fereydoon Vahdany. (2014). The Effect of Explicit Metapragmatic Instruction on Request Speech Act Awareness of Intermediate EFL Students at Institute Level. Universal Journal of Educational Research 2(7): 504-511. https://doi.org/10.13189/ujer.2014.020702

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Independent-samples t-test on pretest DCT scores of the two groups of 30 learners each, reported in the Results section with Table 1 group statistics. The article reports p = 0.070; no effect size is printed, and equivalence was not formally tested.

"the mean of the pretest of the control group was 16.30 and that of experimental group was 17.10.The p value, a predetermined significance level to be compared with observed level, was 0.05 in the study. The p value (0.070) > 0.05 revealed the fact that the two groups were not significantly different at 0.05 level"

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