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Group, arid the results showed that there was no
difference
between the average of'error rates .per student, in each
in the specific texts and the average of error rates per
ngp,
student,
in each ngp, in the non-specific ones 22 .
The same test 24 was applied to the error rates per
student, in each ngp, in the specific texts and in the nonspecific
ones administered to the Nursing Group . The results
of the test showed that there was no difference between
average of error rates per student, in each ngp, in the
the
specific
texts, and the average of error rates per student, in each
ngp,
in the non-specific
texts.
The results of the application of this statistical
test revealed that the knowledge of the subject was not a
decisive factor in those students' individual performance, either
in the specific texts or in the non-specific ones. As to the
Physics and the Nursing students' individual performance, we can
conclude that ngps, in both types of texts, constituted an area
of difficulty, irrespective of the type of texts where they were
inserted.
-To verify whether there was any correlation between
the number of words compounding a ngp arid the error rate per
student, in each ngp, in the rendition of wbt and irg errors
separately, it was necessary to estimate the error rates per
student, in each ngp, in the non-sepcific
texts and in the
specific ones, first. Both groups of'students have been considered
as only one, in the non-specific texts, since we have been
interested
in assessing any correlation between the length of
ngps and the rendition of wbt and irg errors,
only.