Developing grammatical competence of secondary level students through group work

Abstract

The present study entitled "Developing Grammatical Competence of Secondary Level Students Through Group Work" is an attempt to find out the usefulness of group work in developing grade nine students' grammatical competence. In order to carry out this study, I selected thirty six students of grade nine of Shree Laxmi Secondary School, Jalthal 2 Jhapausing non-random purposive sampling procedure. For the study, I used them as primary sources of data. The primary data were collected from all the thirty six students of grade nine of the school. Afters electing the sample population, a pre-test was administered to determine the students' initial proficiency on the selected items. Then twenty one lessons were taught using group work technique. During that period, two progress tests were administered at the interval of seven lessons and finally a post-test was administered. Through the analysis and interpretation of the collected data it was found that group work was really a usefull technique in developing grammatical competence of the students. This study incorporates five main chapters and other many sub-chapters. The first chapter deals with the general background of the study, objectives and significance the study. Similarly, the second chapter consists of there view of the related literature and theoretical framework of the study. Likewise third chapter deals with the research methodology (sources of data, primary sources of data, secondary sources of data, population of the study and sampling procedure),tools for data collection, process of data collection and limitations of the study.The fourth chapter consists of analysis and interpretation of data, analysis of individual test scores obtained from four tests including pre-test and post-test and analysis and interpretation of item wise correct and incorrect responses on the four tests including pre-test and post-test. In the same way,fifth chapter presents finding, conclusion and recommendations of the study based on the analysis of the collected data.It was found that the average score and the percentage of the post-test were higher than that of the pre-test. Thus, on the basis of this analysis,it can be said that the use of group work technique in developing grammatical competence is very effective.Finally,the last part of the study includes references and appendices.