Effectiveness of Co-Operative Learning in Teaching Broken Dialogue
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This study attempts to find out the"Effectiveness of co-operative learning in teaching broken dialogue".Forty students of Grade 10 from public School,Narayani Higher Secondary School, Karkigaun-2, Jajarkot were involved in this study. The researcher prepared test item with dialogues i.e. controlled broken dialogue and free-broken dialogue. All5 items for 50 full marks were taken from the English practice book of grade 10.First he used a pre-test for 40 students and divided them in to two groups as an 'Experimental group' and'Controlled group' on the basis of marks obtained in the pre-test maintaining similar proficiency level in both the groups. Then, he taught 28 days both the groups one with co-operative learning way and another traditional way. Then took post-test using the same test items and analyzed the findings of the research using simple statistical methods. The cooperative learning in teaching broken dialogues was found effective as the experimental group performed better by 11.58 marks in total performance than the controlled group.Similarly,experimental group had greater average increment than controlled group by 5.86 in controlled broken dialogue, by 3.6 in free-broken dialogue.
The thesis comprises four chapters.The first chapter presents general background, review of the related literature, objectives of study and significance of the study.The second chapter deals with methodology adopted while carrying out the study. It includes sources of data,primary and secondary, sample population,sampling procedure, tools of data collection and limitations of study.The third chapter consists of analysis and interpretation of data and the fourth chapter presents findings and recommendations drawn on the basis of analysis and interpretation of the data. Finally, chapter four is followed by the references and appendices.