Simplifying journal articles and providing glossaries of unfamiliar terms preceded the second-cycle improvement in proposal writing¶

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q2 i? In the second cycle the researcher simplified article texts and provided glossaries, after which all six teams performed better and participation increased. → Arifani 2016

Evidence¶

Arifani 2016¶

Arifani, Y. (2016). The Implementation of Team-Based Discovery Learning to Improve Students’ Ability in Writing Research Proposal. International Education Studies, 9(2). https://doi.org/10.5539/ies.v9n2p111

q2 · i? · the article prints no effect size for this finding · design · r3

Second-cycle planning modification in the classroom action research. The article states the improvement "tried to highlight the difficulty level of international journal articles content by doing simplification and providing glossary," and observation noted all six teams performed better with significantly increased participation.

"The improvement tried to highlight the difficulty level of international journal articles content by doing simplification and providing glossary toward the unfamiliar terms in the articles."

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

• Linguistic simplification of math word problems can improve performance, particularly among English language learners and students from low-socioeconomic backgrounds — the general claim this finding bears on, with the studies behind it
• First-cycle underperformance was attributed to low-quality student-generated questions that failed to represent journal article patterns — related
• Team-based discovery learning improved EFL students' research proposal writing across two action-research cycles, with cycle-two average score 85.8 above the success criterion — related
• Individual writing-test scores improved for all thirty students between cycles, with gains ranging from 6.3% to 30.8% and no student declining — related
• Prompting a learning disability shifts feedback toward word- and sentence-level remediation, simplified vocabulary, and lowered expectations — related
• Prior meta-analytic and experimental evidence reports positive effects of linguistic simplification on learning outcomes, attributed by the review literature cited in this article — related