Effectiveness of Communicative Method in Teaching Reading Comprehension

Abstract

This study aims at finding out the relative effectiveness of communicative method in teaching reading comprehension in English. Ithas been done practically and comparatively. Forty students of Grade IX studying at Shree Narayani VidhyaMandir Higher Secondary School, Shivanager-1, Chitwan are the samplepopulation of this work. A pre-test was taken to determine theirproficiency in reading at the entry point. They were ranked from the 1 to40 th position on the basis of the result of the pre-test. They were dividedinto two groups on the basis of the results of the pre-test. Then one group was taught through communicative method and theother was taught applying conventional method. Each group attended 15lessons/classes. Then a post-test was taken to determine the relativeeffectiveness of communicative method for teaching readingcomprehension in English. On the whole, it was found thatcommunicative method is relatively more effective than the conventionalmethod in teaching reading comprehension. This thesis is divided into four chapters. Each chapter in turn isdivided into necessary sub-sections. The first chapter includes a brief introductory survey of the relatedarea of the study. The second chapter deals with the methodology adopted during thestudy. Under this chapter, there are sources of data,sampling procedures,population of the study and tools of data collection. The third chapter deals with analysis and interpretation of data.They have been mainly analyzed and interpreted on the basis of difference between the average score in the pre-testand post-test. The last or fourth chapter comprises findings and recommendations of the study. st