Pupils' life skills and language learning strategies improved significantly from pre-test to post-test within both experimental groups¶

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q3 i3 Both experimental groups showed statistically significant pre-to-post gains on all life skills measures and the strategies questionnaire, with large effect sizes (η² = .96–.99). → Abdelhalim 2015

Evidence¶

Abdelhalim 2015¶

Safaa M. Abdelhalim. (2015). Children Literature Based Program for Developing EFL Primary Pupils’ Life Skills and Language Learning Strategies. English Language Teaching, 8(2). https://doi.org/10.5539/elt.v8n2p178

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Paired-samples t-tests (N = 31 per group, df = 30) showed significant pre-to-post gains on all four measures in both experimental groups, with effect sizes ranging from η² = .96 to .99. The article describes these as large effects.

"Table 4 indicates that there were statistically significant difference in life skills and language learning strategies between the mean scores of the two experimental groups on the pre- and post-tests in favor of the post-test scores"

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