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no wbt error was found in the only six-word ngp which occurred
in the texts administered to the Nursing Group.
Table 10
Length of ngps and the error rates per students,
in each ngp, in wb t and i rg errors, with the
correlation rates of both types of errors.
Specific texts translated by the Nursing Group
Number of students: 38
N. length
error
of ngps 3 r
NT
rate per
student, in
each ngp (%) N.
2wg 3wg 4wg 5wg 6wg Correlation rate
wbt 0,35 0,61 0,93 1,32 - 0,99 = 99%
irg 0,29 0,64 0,75 - 5,26 0,86 =86%
From the results obtained, we see that there is a
correlation between the length of the ngps and the error
rates
per student, in each ngp. Thus, the results
presented in Tables
8, 9, and 10 show that in both types of texts, either in the
specific or in the non-specific ones* the error rates per
student, in each ngp, increase as the number of words
forming
a ngp also
increases.
5.6.1. Comments on the results from the statistical tests
The sequence of the structural
elements of ngps has
exerted an influence on the interpretation
of ngps by those EL I
students, despite the result produced by the application of the