Table 7 Syntactic alignment in students’ continuations
From: Effects of input text genre on Chinese young EFL learners’ performance on continuation tasks
Frequency of 4-word phrases | Narrative | Argumentative | χ2-test | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
χ2 | df | p | |||
Aligned | 7 (1.92%) | 15 (7%) | 9.568 | 1 | 0.002** |
Non-aligned | 358 (98.08%) | 199 (93%) | |||
Total | 365 | 214 | |||