tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31830497.post7732317816646182977..comments2024-02-28T05:25:12.859-05:00Comments on English, Jack: And hence metaphor awareness is important in language educationBretthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02870575277556244419noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31830497.post-15680584951093160452010-06-18T20:44:17.052-05:002010-06-18T20:44:17.052-05:00It does seem the author is overstating the robustn...It does seem the author is overstating the robustness of the findings. Ran has a point that some followup could provide more support for the claim. However, it was not done; thus, the researcher should be a little more cautious in making the claim.Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03036502817722430447noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31830497.post-61194055580615122452010-06-17T10:09:41.845-05:002010-06-17T10:09:41.845-05:00I'm also not sure about the merit of combining...I'm also not sure about the merit of combining the two halves, but I put it out there for the sake of completeness.Bretthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02870575277556244419noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31830497.post-26271851575212365962010-06-17T10:05:01.756-05:002010-06-17T10:05:01.756-05:00> If you add the two halves of the test togethe...> If you add the two halves of the test together, though, you get a very modest 0.25 effect.<br /><br />I'm not sure it makes sense to simply combine the two halves of the test, giving them equal weighting: though each half contains only fifteen words, one half also <i>represents</i> only fifteen words, whereas the other is assumed to be representative of a much larger group.<br /><br />Overall, I think the best way to summarize these results would be with two sentences, one summarizing one half and one summarizing the other, without trying to synthesize them into one big picture.<br /><br />(That said, I think the research design may have sold the claim short. I'm guessing that if you gave the students another test a week later, you'd find that the experimental group's advantage would spread a bit into the instructed words: both groups would forget some instructed words, but the experimental group can cope with that somewhat. But on the other hand, they'd probably lose some advantage with the new items, as they'd have forgotten some of the metaphors. So who knows? It's too bad the researchers didn't test that.)Ranhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01369980917358096502noreply@blogger.com