The Impact of a Contrastive Lexical Approach in Formulaic Expressions’ Perception on University EFL Learners’ Writing Proficiencies

<table class="table-group" id="tab4"><tr><td><table class="table"><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="6"><hr/></td></tr><tr class="thead"><td class="align_left"> </td><td class="align_center">Groups</td><td class="align_center"><i>N</i></td><td class="align_center">Mean</td><td class="align_center">SD</td><td class="align_center">SE mean</td></tr><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="6"><hr/></td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">Pretest</td><td class="align_center">Experimental group (EG)</td><td class="align_center">23</td><td class="align_center">61.09</td><td class="align_center">2.44</td><td class="align_center">0.66</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left"> </td><td class="align_center">Control group (CG)</td><td class="align_center">23</td><td class="align_center">62.01</td><td class="align_center">1.53</td><td class="align_center">0.46</td></tr><tr class="table-tr"><td colspan="6"><hr class="tbody-hr"/></td></tr></table></td></tr></table>

<div>Pretest descriptive statistics.</div>

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Table 4: The Impact of a Contrastive Lexical Approach in Formulaic Expressions’ Perception on University EFL Learners’ Writing Proficiencies 