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Effect of “Tell Me More” on EFL Undergraduate Students’ English Language Achievement Cover

Effect of “Tell Me More” on EFL Undergraduate Students’ English Language Achievement

Open Access
|Oct 2017

Figures & Tables

Figure 1

TMM and other popular tests Source: TMM manual

Figure 2

A figure showing a sample of the list of skill

Figure 3

A figure showing a sample of skills and proposed time of use at the intermediate level

Table 1

Means, Standard Deviations and Z scores of the tests

TestsBeginner (n=676)Intermediate (n=846)Intermediate+ (n=450)Advanced (n=165)Total (n=2137)
x¯S.D.x¯S.D.x¯S.D.x¯S.D.x¯S.D.
1.Placement Test2.390.453.860.566.220.868.620.484.261.95
2.Progress Test3.001.023.891.196.341.498.530.854.482.06
3.Achievement Test285.8932.94306.6642.59419.3882.26566.4277.15343.8597.87
4.ZPlacement Test- 0.960.23- 0.200.291.010.442.230.250.001.00
5.ZProgress Test- 0.720.49- 0.290.580.900.721.970.410.001.00
6.ZAchievementtest- 0.590.34- 0.380.440.770.842.270.790.001.00
7.Zdiff (6-4)0.370.40- 0.180.45- 0.240.680.040.700.000.58
Table 2

ANOVA Table showing the difference between groups in the achievement test

Sum of SquaresdfMean SquareFSig.
Between Groups14092035.355346973451597.386.000
Within Groups6266515.92221312940
Total20358551.2772134

* p<.01

Table 3

Pairwise comparison of the proficiency levels

JMean Difference (I-J)
IBeginnerIntermediateIntermediate+Advanced
Beginner-0.54185*0.60203*0.32594*
Intermediate-0.06018*-0.21591*
Intermediate+--0.27609*
Advanced-

* p<.01

Table 4

Average time spent on the TMM program by the proficiency groups

BeginnerIntermediateIntermediate+Advanced
74.4670.1649.0722.39
Language: English
Page range: 449 - 461
Submitted on: Aug 11, 2017
Accepted on: Oct 17, 2017
Published on: Oct 1, 2017
Published by: International Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE)
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

© 2017 George Gyamfi, Panida Sukseemuang, published by International Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE)
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.