Effectiveness of Authentic Materials in Language Teaching

Abstract

The present study entitled 'Effectiveness of Authentic Materials in Language Teaching' attempts to find out the effectiveness of authentic materials in teaching grammatical items in language. The researcher used experimental design for this study and collected data from sampled population of thirty students of Samundra School Nuwakot of grade ten. Conditional verbs, connectives, prepositions, tense, articles, and concord were selected as the contents to be taught. The test items were the major tools for data collection. Students were divided into two groups as controlled and experimental group. Pre-test was taken to ensure the existing level of performance of the subjects. Post-test was taken to find out the effect of treatment of 28 days. After administering the pre-test, the students were divided into two groups using simple random sampling procedure. Experimental group was taught by using authentic texts whereas controlled group was taught as usual way. After the post-test, use of authentic materials while teaching in the classroom is found more effective than teaching without authentic texts. In this research, the experimental group has been found better than controlled group. It proves that authentic texts are more effective in language class. The findings of this study were determined on the basis of average marks obtained by the students. This thesis is divided into five chapters. The first chapter, consists of background of the study, statement of the problem, objectives of the study, research questions, significance of the study, delimitations of the study and operational definitions of the key terms. Likely, chapter two deals with the review of the theoretical literature, review of empirical literature, implications of the review for the study and conceptual framework of the study. The third chapter includes methodology and procedure adopted during the study and chapter four incorporates data analysis and interpretation procedure in terms of holistic and item-based comparison. The chapter five includes findings, conclusion and recommendations followed by references and appendices.