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preliminary study two was compared to that in preliminary study one – Group A
and Group B (Graph 3.1 and 3.2 below). One-way ANOVA was conducted on
the number of items learned by Group A using reliability between preliminary
studies as a factor with two levels (preliminary study one and preliminary study
two) (SPSS for Windows, 2003). No significant difference was found in the
ability of participants in Group A to learn this new set of stimuli compared to that
of preliminary study one – F (1, 9) = 2.726, p= .118. This indicates both reliability
of performance for Group A between the two preliminary studies and no
evidence of any intrinsic link between the new word forms and their meanings
which could have influenced learning ability.
Graph 3.1
Comparison of number of items learned by participants in Group A
from immediate recall (written) preliminary studies one and two
2 0
1 8
Number of items learnt
1 6
1 4
1 2
10
8
6
4
2
0
1
2
3
G ro u p A P a rtic ip an ts
4
5
P re lim S tu d y 2
P re lim S tu dy 1
P re lim S tu dy 1 P re lim S tu dy 2
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