First-year Chinese EFL majors taught with song education scored 3.1 points higher on the Comprehensive English Course post-test than a parallel control class¶

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q2 i? After one semester, the experimental group averaged 84.5 on the post-test versus 81.4 for the control group, having been nearly equal on the pre-test (78.6 vs 78.3). → Mai Xiaomei & Mai Quansheng 2018

Evidence¶

Mai Xiaomei & Mai Quansheng 2018¶

Mai Xiaomei & Mai Quansheng. (2018). The Efficacy of Song Education to Develop English Proficiency for Chinese EFL Majors. English Language Teaching, 11(12). https://doi.org/10.5539/elt.v11n12p166

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Quasi-experiment with 48 first-year English majors in two parallel classes (24 each) sharing one teacher; the experimental class received songs in addition to the same tasks. The article reports the descriptive averages "84.5" and "81.4" and a 3.1-point difference, with no statistical test or effect size printed.

"The average score of the post-test for the experimental group is 84.5, as compared to a lower 81.4 of the control group. Thus a relati vely significant difference of 3.1 points has been notified."

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