Teaching Prepositions through Discovery Technique in Class Ten
Date
2012
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Faculty of English Education
Abstract
This thesis entitled "Teaching Prepositions Through Discovery Technique in Class
Ten" aimed at find out the effectiveness of discovery technique in teaching
prepositions in class ten. I have done experimental research for this purpose. In
order to do so, I collected the data from a private school by teaching 50 students of
grade ten. A pre-test was given by using the test items. Then the students were
ranked according to the individual scores. They were divided into two equal
groups, D-Group and C-Group. On the basis of odd-even ranking of the individual
scores of the pre-test, D-Group was taught using the discovery technique. All of
the activities were the same except the difference was that D-Group applied
discovery technique. On the other hand, C-Group didn't apply discovery technique
but used general one. Both groups were taught for 30 periods. After the
experimental teaching a post-test was given and the results of both the tests were
compared to determine the effectiveness of discovery technique in learning
prepositions in class ten. It was found that D-group was able to learn far better
than C-Group and teaching prepositions using discovery technique was found to
be more effective than other traditional techniques.
This thesis consists of four chapters. Chapter one is an introductory chapter. It
includes general background, review of the related literature, objectives of the
study and significance of the study. Chapter two deals with the methodology
which was adopted to carry out the research. It includes sources of data, sampling
procedure, tools for data collection, process of data collection and limitations of
the study. Chapter three consists of the analysis and interpretation of data. Chapter
four consists of the finding and recommendations of the study. This chapter is
followed by references and appendices.
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Teaching Prepositions, Teaching Grammar, English language, Discovery Technique