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Kilickaya, Ferit – PASAA: Journal of Language Teaching and Learning in Thailand, 2017
This study used a post-test-only control group experimental design to determine the effects of prelecture online quizzes on the students' perceived preparation and academic performance. The participants included 54 pre-service Turkish teachers of English enrolled at a state university in Turkey. The participants were randomly selected from a list…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Computer Assisted Testing, Research Design, Control Groups
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Hashemi, Mohammad Reza; Ghanizadeh, Afsaneh – System: An International Journal of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics, 2012
The present study investigated the impact of critical discourse analysis (CDA) on TEFL students' critical thinking (CT) ability in "Reading Journalistic Texts" classes. In so doing, the study utilized an experimental design with 24 participants in the control group and 29 participants in the experimental group. The results of a pretest indicated…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Research Design, Discourse Analysis
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Halenko, Nicola; Jones, Christian – System: An International Journal of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics, 2011
The aim of this study is to evaluate the impact of explicit interventional treatment on developing pragmatic awareness and production of spoken requests in an EAP context (taken here to mean those studying/using English for academic purposes in the UK) with Chinese learners of English at a British higher education institution. The study employed…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Control Groups, Research Design, English (Second Language)
Han, Ye – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Previous studies revealed mixed results in terms of the relative effects of implicit and explicit feedback: some found that explicit feedback worked more efficiently than implicit feedback; others found no difference between the two feedback types. These contrasting results called for further investigations into this issue, particularly examining…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Experimental Groups, Research Design, Second Language Learning
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Gomleksiz, M. N. – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2007
The present study compares the effects of the cooperative jigsaw II method and traditional teacher-centred teaching method on improving vocabulary knowledge and active-passive voice in English as a foreign language for engineering students and the students' attitudes towards learning English. Jigsaw is a cooperative learning model that involves…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Research Design, Student Attitudes
El-Koumy, Abdel Salam Abdel Khalek – Online Submission, 2006
A study investigated the effects of the Directed Reading Thinking Activity on Egyptian first-year secondary stage EFL students' referential and inferential reading comprehension. The study utilized a pretest-posttest control group experimental design. The subjects consisted of 72 first-year secondary students in Menouf Secondary School for Boys at…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Reading Comprehension, Research Design