Effectiveness of Pair Work in Reading Comprehension

Abstract

This research study entitled Effectiveness of Pair Work in Reading Comprehension aimed at findings out the role of pair work on developing reading skill. Specially, this has been carried out to analyze the accomplishments of research work. I selected twenty two students of Paradise Readers Academy School of Naikap. While completing this work, I administered a pre test and three progressive tests to know about the effectiveness of pair work and students’ proficiency level on reading skill and I administered a progress test to know about students’ progress on reading skill by adopting pair work techniques. During one month teaching period, I administered pre test and progress test. The reason of taking pre test and progress test was to observe and analyze the impact of pair learning approach in student’s reading and writings. By comparing the answer sheets of pre test and three progressive tests, it was found that reading skill of students was highly improved in progressive test. The average score in pre test was (5.2) which ascended to (7.1) in 1st progress test, gradually lifted to (8.3) in 2nd progress test and to a whooping (9.1) in the final or 3rd progress test. I used holistic marking scheme to score the students’ reading skill. The result indicates that pair work based technique has positive impact on students’ reading skill. It was found that pair work in reading comprehension was full of fun, amusement and the ability of students to understand the text improved quiet significantly after adopting pair work in reading.

This thesis has been divided into five chapters viz. introduction; review of related literature and conceptual framework; methods and procedures; analysis and interpretation of data; and findings, conclusions and recommendations. The first chapter consists of background of the study, statement of problem, objectives of the study, research questions, significance of the study, delimitations of the study and operational definitions of the key terms. Similarly, the second chapter deals with the review of theoretical literature, review of empirical literature, implications of the review for the study and conceptual framework. Likewise, the third chapter sheds light on the methods and procedures of the study which includes method and design of the study, population, sample and sampling strategy, research tools, sources of data, data collection procedures and ethical considerations. The fourth chapter presents the analysis of data and interpretation of the results. Finally, the fifth chapter encompasses overall findings, conclusion and recommendations related to policy level, practice level and further research.