TABLE 5.
Results of three-factor mixed ANOVA for oral production complexity.
| Oral production complexity | Source | df | F | p | |
| Lexical complexity | Between subjects | ||||
| Instruction method | 1 | 0.085 | 0.772 | 0.003 | |
| L2 proficiency | 1 | 52.725 | 0.000*** | 0.653 | |
| Instruction method × L2 proficiency | 1 | 0.004 | 0.951 | 0.000 | |
| Error | 28 | ||||
| Within subjects | |||||
| Testing time | 2 | 6.967 | 0.002** | 0.199 | |
| Instruction method × testing time | 2 | 0.427 | 0.655 | 0.015 | |
| L2 proficiency × testing time | 2 | 0.124 | 0.884 | 0.004 | |
| Instruction method × L2 proficiency × testing time | 2 | 1.711 | 0.190 | 0.058 | |
| Error | 56 | ||||
| Syntactic complexity | Between subjects | ||||
| Instruction method | 1 | 0.257 | 0.616 | 0.009 | |
| L2 proficiency | 1 | 10.622 | 0.003** | 0.275 | |
| Instruction method × L2 proficiency | 1 | 0.119 | 0.732 | 0.004 | |
| Error | 28 | ||||
| Within subjects | |||||
| Testing time | 2 | 7.821 | 0.001** | 0.218 | |
| Instruction method × testing time | 2 | 0.930 | 0.400 | 0.032 | |
| L2 proficiency × testing time | 2 | 1.081 | 0.346 | 0.037 | |
| Instruction method × L2 proficiency × testing time | 2 | 0.037 | 0.964 | 0.001 | |
| Error | 56 | ||||
** p < 0.01; *** p < 0.001.