Wiki-based instruction reduces writing anxiety of EFL business students relative to traditional instruction¶

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q2 i? After the intervention, the experimental (wiki) group's writing anxiety scores were significantly lower than the control group's on the Writing Anxiety Inventory. → Kassem 2017

Evidence¶

Kassem 2017¶

Mohamed Ali Mohamed Kassem. (2017). Developing Business Writing Skills and Reducing Writing Anxiety of EFL Learners through Wikis. English Language Teaching, 10(3). https://doi.org/10.5539/elt.v10n3p151

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Independent-samples t-test on the post-application of the 12-item Writing Anxiety Inventory (five-point Likert scale) with the same 60 students. The wiki group's mean anxiety score was lower than the control group's, "t (58) = 12.15, p = 0.01".

"The results, displayed in Table 3, showed statistically significant difference in the scores for the experimental group (M =29.17, SD =4.25) and the control group (M =48.47, SD = 7.59); t (58) = 12.15, p = 0.01 in favor of the experimental group."

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