Experimental-group EFL students taught with working memory strategies significantly outperformed control-group students on a vocabulary post-test¶
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q2 i? After a 10-week intervention with working memory strategies, the experimental group (M = 3.46, SD = 0.99) scored significantly higher than the control group (M = 2.5, SD = 1.336) on the post-test, t(48) = -2.9, p = 0.005. → Ibarra Santacruz 2018
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Ibarra Santacruz 2018¶
Ibarra Santacruz, D., & Martínez Ortega, D. (2018). Can working memory strategies enhance English vocabulary learning? HOW, 25(2), 29-47. https://doi.org/10.19183/how.25.2.410
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Quasi-experimental study of two intact undergraduate EFL groups (28 experimental, 22 control) at a Colombian university; performance coded on a 4-point scale and compared with independent-samples t-tests. The article reports the experimental group "outperformed the control group" with t(48) = -2.9, p = 0.005.
"The results of an independent-samples t-test (Table 4) demonstrated that the experimental group ( M = 3.46, SD = 0.99) outperformed the control group ( M = 2.5, SD = 1.336), t(48) = -2.9, p = 0.005 in the post-test."
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