Table 5 Independent samples t-test of the students at B1 and B2 levels
From: The effect of gender and language proficiency on the metaphor use in the writing of TEFL students
Levene's test for equality of variances | t-test for equality of means | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
F | Sig. | t | Df | Sig. (2-tailed) | Mean difference | Std. error difference | 95% confidence interval of the difference | ||
Lower | Upper | ||||||||
MD | |||||||||
Equal variances assumed | .14 | .71 | − 5.21 | 48 | .000 | − 20.16 | 3.86 | − 27.93 | − 12.38 |
Equal variances not assumed | − 5.26 | 47.918 | .000 | − 20.16 | 3.82 | − 27.85 | − 12.46 | ||