Use of Elicitation Technique in Developing Reading Comprehension

Abstract

The present study entitled "Use of Elicitation Technique in Developing ReadingComprehension" is an attempt to find out theuseof elicitation technique indeveloping grade nine students' reading comprehension ability. In order to carryout this study, I selected thirtytwo students of grade nine of Janak SecondarySchool using non-random purposive sampling procedure. For the study, I usedthem as primary sources of data. The primary data were collected from thirty-twostudents of grade nine of the school. After selectingthe sample population, a pre-test was administered to determine the students' initial proficiency on the selecteditems. Then twenty one lessons were taught using elicitation technique. Duringthat period, two progressive tests were administered at the interval of sevenlessons and finally a post-test was administered. Through the analysis andinterpretation of the collected data it was found that elicitation technique wasreallyusefultechnique in developing reading comprehension ability of thestudents. This study incorporates four main chapters and other many sub-chapters. The firstchapter deals with the general background, review of the related literature,objectives and significance the study. Similarly, the second chapter consists of themethodology (sources of data, primary sources of data:secondary sourcesandpopulation of the study and sampling procedure), tools for data collection, processof data collection and limitations of the study. Likewise,third chapter deals withthe analysis and interpretation of data, analysis of individual test scores obtainedfrom four tests and analysis and interpretation of item wise correct and incorrectresponses on the four tests.In the same way, the fourth chapter presents findingsand recommendations of the study based on the analysis of the collected data.Finally, the last part of the study includes references and appendices.