Table 1 Characteristics of the participants.

From: EFL learners’ metaphorical insights into multi-modal writing intervention

Characteristic

Mean

St. Dev

Range

Age

18.77

2.39

18–20

Age of L2 (English) acquisition

12.33

3.45

10–13

Writing scores

70.62

7.81

56.25–86.50

Hours a week of course related to writing in English

14

5.61

0–70