The Effectiveness of Language Experience approach in Teaching Reading Comprehension

Abstract

The thesis entitled "The Effectiveness of Language ExperienceApproach inTeachingReadingComprehension" is an attemptof the researcher to find out theeffectiveness of 'Language Experience Approach' in teaching readingcomprehension. For this purpose,the researcher selected the students of grade nineof Shree Janata Secondary School, Aurahi of Sarlahi district. He collected the datafrom the sampled population of fifty students of the sameSchool. The studentswere given pre-testand post-test using the test-items (objective and subjective)already designed. Thepost-test was administered after twenty one days' teachingby using 'Language Experience Approach' togroup 'A' andconventionalteachingapproach(i.e. teacher centered approach)for group 'B'.Here, conventionalteaching approach means teaching the students without paying attention towardstheir previous experiences and background knowledge about the subject matter.Their scores were tabulated analyzed in terms of the average difference and itspercentage. Two tests results (pre-test and post-test) ofbothgroups(experimentaland control group) were compared to find out the effectiveness of 'LanguageExperience Approach' in teaching reading comprehension. This study found outthat theLanguage Experience Approachhas significant effect in teaching readingcomprehension as a whole. The studyshowed that the experimental group i.e. 'A'got 25.95 average score percentage and the control group i.e. 'B' got 15.3 averagescore percentage. It indicates that group 'A' has increased greater averagepercentagethan group 'B'. So, teaching through 'Language Experience Approach'has relatively better result than conventional teaching approach(i.e. teachercentered approach). This study consists of four chapters. The first chapter consists of generalbackground,review of related literature, objectives of the study and significanceof the study. Chapter two consists of the methodology. It encompasses the sourcesof data, population of the study, sampling procedure, tools fordata collection,procedure ofdata collection and limitations of the study. Similarly, chapter threeconsists of the analysis andinterpretationof the collected data. The data weretabulated and analyzed on the basis of the test items. Likewise, chapterfourincorporates the major findings andrecommendationsof the study.