First-year EFL students who did vocabulary exercises via SMS outperformed those doing paper-based exercises on a post-test¶

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Evidence · 1 study · causal r2 · q3
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Subclaims¶

q3 i? The SMS-based group scored significantly higher than the paper-based group on the 50-item vocabulary post-test (p = .008). → Suwantarathip 2015

Evidence¶

Suwantarathip 2015¶

Suwantarathip, O., & Orawiwatnakul, W. (2015). Using mobile-assisted exercises to support students’ vocabulary skill development. The Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology, 14(1), 163–171. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1057347

q3 · i? · causal · r2

Quasi-experiment with two intact sections of 40 first-year students in a Fundamental English I course; independent samples t-test compared post-test means of SMS group (M = 33.25, SD = 5.67) and paper-based group (M = 29.70, SD = 5.57). The article reports "a statistically significant difference in the test scores at the level of .05".

"The result revealed a statistically significant difference in the test scores at the level of .05 as shown in Table 2 (p =.008)."

Discussion¶

Learner Variables¶

• Vocabulary — outcome: instruction changes it

Related Claims¶

• Both SMS and paper-based exercise groups improved vocabulary scores significantly from pre-test to post-test — related
• Chinese EFL students learning vocabulary via daily SMS messages outperformed a paper-based self-regulated group on the immediate posttest after a three-week intervention — related
• University freshmen learning academic vocabulary via SMS show no significant short-term advantage over freshmen learning the same words with a dictionary — related
• Vocabulary taught via SMS is retained significantly better in the long term than vocabulary learned with a dictionary — related
• No significant difference in prior vocabulary knowledge between the SMS and paper groups at pretest — related