Effectiveness of Teaching Grammar Through Text

Abstract

This thesis entitled "Effectiveness of Teaching Grammar Through Text" is an attemptto find out the effective way of teaching grammar as a whole. The study is anexperimental type in nature. The researcher selected grade nine students of ShreeMahendra Secondary School of Sunsari district through non-random judgementalsampling. Firstly sheadministeredthe testitems to find out theexistingproficiencylevel of the students. Then she divided the students into experimental and controlledgroupson the basisof marks obtained from their test paper. Shetook20 classesusingtext for teaching grammarand administered post-test in order to find out the progressof the students from the pre-test and difference between two groups in post test. Thedifference was detectedfrom the comparison of the results of two tests. It has beenfound that the students underexperimental group haveperformedbetter in post-testthan controlled groupwhich means grammar teaching through text produced betterresult than grammar teaching through individual sentences. This thesis consists of four chapters, chapter one introduces study in termsof generalbackground, literature review, objectives of the study and significance of the study,chapter two deals with the methodology whichis adopted for the study. Methodologyconsists of the topics like, sources of data, study population, sampling procedure, toolsfor data collection, procedures for data collection and limitationsof study. Chapterthree presents the analysis and interpretation of the collected data. In this chapter, dataare analyzed and interpreted through statistical and descriptive approach. Chapter fourincorporates findings and recommendations of this research. The references andappendices are the concluding part of the research.