Playing Spaceteam ESL as a warm-up produced no significant difference in fluency improvement between treatment and control groups over time¶

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Currency · newest study 2016 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

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q2 i? A repeated measures factorial design test found no significant difference in SPM improvement between the treatment and control groups from pretest to two post-tests (p=.395). → Grimshaw 2016

Evidence¶

Grimshaw 2016¶

Grimshaw, J., Cardoso, W., & Waddington, D. (2016). Can a ‘shouting’ digital game help learners develop oral fluency in a second language?. In S. Papadima-Sophocleous, L. Bradley & S. Thouësny (Eds), CALL communities and culture – short papers from EUROCALL 2016 (pp. 172-177). Research-publishing.net. https://doi.org/10.14705/rpnet.2016.eurocall2016.557

q2 · i? · causal · r1

A repeated measures factorial design test with treatment as the independent variable and Syllables Per Minute (SPM) as the dependent variable, comparing 20 learners in two intact classes. The article reports "no significant difference in improvement between groups over time"; equivalence was not tested.

"Results indicate that there was no significant difference in improvement between groups over time (Table 1), p=.395."

Discussion¶

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