Effectiveness of Visual Materials in Teaching Vocabulary

Abstract

The present study entitled ‘Effectiveness ofVisual Materialsin Teaching Vocabularywith Young Learners’was carried out to investigatethe effectiveness of visualmaterialsin teaching vocabularyat GradeSixusing Experimental research design andquantitative method of analysis . Fiftystudents ofPurushodayaSecondarySchool,Hugdishir 8,Baglungwere the sample population of this study. The test(pre and post)itemswere the major tools for data collection. A pre-test was administered beforeactual experimental classroom teaching, and post-test was administered immediatelyafter classroom teachingto know the prior knowledge of the student and to investigatethe actual effect of visual aids respectively.I wasinvolved in the experimentalteaching for the purpose of carrying out this research. After administering the pre-test,the students were divided into two groups usingsimple random sampling procedure.Experimental Groupwas taught byusing visual aidswhereasControlled Groupwastaught using traditional method. Each group attended twenty twolessons. Then, apost-test was administered. After that, the results of these tests were compared todeterminethe effectiveness of visual aidsin teaching vocabulary items.The studyrevealedthat the students whowere taught usingvisual aidswere found to havebetterresult than the oneswho were taught through traditional way. The findings of thisstudy were determined on the basis of averagemarks obtained by the students. This thesis consists of five chapters. Chapter oneintroduces the study which includesbackground of the study, statement of the problem, objectives of the study,hypothesis, significance of the study, delimitation of the study and operationaldefinition of the key terms in this chapter.Likewisechapter two deals with thereviewofrelated literature. Similarly Chapter three includesthemethodology and procedureadoptedduring the study. Chapter fourincorporatesthe analysis and interpretation ofthe study under different headings. Chapter five comprises findings, conclusion andrecommendations of the study in brief.