Iranian undergraduate EFL students who performed sight translation exercises during reading instruction scored significantly differently on a TOLIMO reading posttest than control students, which the author interprets as the experimental group outperforming the control group¶

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Evidence · 1 study · causal r1 · q2
Currency · newest study 2016 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q2 i? After eleven sessions of treatment, an Independent Samples T-test found a significant difference between the posttest reading scores of the experimental and control groups (Sig. 0.040). → Fatollahi 2016 q2 i? The author states the experimental group's mean posttest reading ability was significantly higher than the control group's, although the printed posttest means show the control group higher (32.29 vs 25.14). → Fatollahi 2016

Evidence¶

Fatollahi 2016¶

Moslem Fatollahi. (2016). Applying Sight Translation as a Means to Enhance Reading Ability of Iranian EFL Students. English Language Teaching, 9(3). https://doi.org/10.5539/elt.v9n3p153

q2 · i? · causal · r1

Quasi-experimental posttest comparison of two intact classes (N = 35 each) after eleven treatment sessions, analyzed with an Independent Samples T-test in SPSS 22; the printed Sig(2-tailed) is 0.040. The article reports "a significant difference between the reading scores of the two groups".

"result of the critical T-test score for equality of means is 0.04 which does not approve the null hypothesis of the posttest at a 0.05 level of confidence. In other words, as the first null hypothesis of this study is not approved, it is revealed that there is a significant difference between the reading scores of the two groups."

Discussion¶

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