Research Article
Effects of Process-Genre Approach on Students’ Writing Strategy Use in Paragraphs: Second-Year Wachemo University Students
Table 4
Independent samples test results for students’ use of the writing strategies before- and after-treatment.
| | Levene’s test for equality of variances | t-Test for equality of means | F | Sig. | T | DF | Sig. (2-tailed) | Mean D/ce | Std. error D/ce | 95% Confidence interval of the difference | Lower | Upper |
| Cognitive writing strategies | BT | Equal variances assumed | 0.479 | 0.490 | −0.955 | 110 | 0.342 | −1.98214 | 2.07661 | −6.09750 | 2.13321 | AT | Equal variances assumed | 9.919 | 0.002 | 5.887 | 110 | 0.001 | 8.62500 | 1.46500 | 5.72172 | 11.52828 |
| Meta-cognitive writing strategies | BT | Equal variances assume | 1.668 | 0.199 | −0.838 | 110 | 0.404 | −1.16071 | 1.38496 | −3.90537 | 1.58395 | AT | Equal variances assumed | 0.008 | 0.929 | 9.191 | 110 | 0.001 | 13.21429 | 1.43779 | 10.36491 | 16.06366 |
| Compensation writing strategies | BT | Equal variances assumed | 1.510 | 0.222 | −1.184 | 110 | 0.239 | −0.98214 | 0.82926 | −2.62555 | 0.66126 | AT | Equal variances assumed | 21.478 | 0.000 | 5.328 | 110 | 0.001 | 3.41071 | 0.64018 | 2.14203 | 4.67940 |
| Social writing strategies | BT | Equal variances assumed | 2.956 | 0.088 | −0.944 | 110 | 0.347 | −0.28571 | 0.30257 | −0.88533 | 0.31390 | AT | Equal variances assumed | 20.223 | 0.000 | 7.224 | 110 | 0.001 | 3.69643 | 0.51166 | 2.68243 | 4.71042 |
| Affective writing strategies | BT | Equal variances assumed | 6.327 | 0.013 | −1.896 | 110 | 0.061 | −1.33929 | 0.70643 | −2.73926 | 0.06069 | AT | Equal variances assumed | 17.670 | 0.000 | 5.017 | 110 | 0.001 | 2.91071 | 0.58012 | 1.76105 | 4.06038 |
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