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Table 3
Error rate per student,in each ngp
Non-specific texts translated by the Physics and
the Nursing Groups
•1st semester, 1979
Federal University of Paraíba
Number of Physics students: 24
Number of Nursing students: 38
T e x t s
Physics Group Nursing Group
e i n 2-" n ^
TIC 16 40 1 ,66 19 40 1,25
T2C 17 51 1 ,39 11 51 0,57
T o t a l 33 91 1 ,52 30 91 0,91
Source: Direct research
Ay : number of wbt and i rg errors
: Z/ - number of ngps in the text
3/ : error rate per student, in each ngp, in
that
text
In Table 4 we have the number of specific
texts
administered to the Physics and the Nursing Groups, the number
of wbt and i rg errors, the number of ngps i n each text and the
error rate per student, in each ngp.'Both groups of
students
translated different specific texts; the Physics Group translated
12 specific texts and the Nursing Group translated 14 specif i c .ones. *