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EXTRAMURAL ENGLISH ACTIVITIES AND INDIVIDUAL LEARNER DIFFERENCES collected in Study Ihree and students" answers in Study Two could be compared. The questionnaire was piloted with 30 EFL teachers. To ensure the internal consistency of the scales, Cronbach’s alpha coefficients were calculated for all scales (for more information about the pilot process, see Fajt 2022a). The final version of the teacher questionnaire was sent to Hungarian secondary school EFL teachers, who were then asked to share it with their EFL teacher colleagues. The data collection itself took place in May 2021. 6.4 DATA ANALYSIS As for data analysis, the methods used in Study Two were transferred to Study Three, too. The collected data were first coded, and all negatively worded items (reversed items) were recoded in a reversed manner (e.g., answers of “do not agree at all” (1) were coded as “completely agree” (5), etc.). The coded data were then input into SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Sciences) 27.0, which allowed for complex statistical analyses with the statistical significance level set for p<.05. Before the analyses, Cronbach’s alpha internal consistency coefficients were calculated for the eight scales to ensure the reliability of the scales used in the study. This was followed by descriptive statistical measures when mean scores (M) and standard deviations (SD) were calculated for all scales. Then relationships among the scales were examined by implementing correlation analyses. Finally, the mean scores of the scales measuring Hungarian secondary school EFL teachers’ answers were compared with the mean scores of the same scales measuring Hungarian school EFL learners’ answers using independent samples t-tests. 6.5 RESULTS AND DISCUSSION These sections provide an overview of the results of Study Three. First, the reliability of scales is presented, followed by the presentation of descriptive statistics (mean scores of scales). Then the results of correlation analyses among scales are described, and finally, EFL teachers’ (participants of Study Three) and EFL learners’ (participants of Study Two) responses are compared and contrasted. 6.5.1 The reliability of scales First, the reliability of the internal consistency of the different scales used in the study was checked. As a result, the Cronbach’s alpha coefficients were computed for the eight scales (see Table 41). * 132 +
