Effectiveness of Task- Based Language Teaching in Reading Skill
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Faculty of English Education
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This research aimed at finding out the effectiveness of task-based Language Teaching
in reading skill in Nepal. The researcher conducted to determine The Effectiveness of
Task-based Language Teaching in Reading Skill. The test items were developed
for the collection of data. The researcher collected data from the sample population of
sixty students of grade ten of a government school, Shree Bhawani Higher
Secondary School, 18 Saya Khola, Manbu, Gorkha. A pre-test was given in the
beginning. Then two groups (Experimental and Control) were made from their odd
and even numbers after pre-test. The students of Experimental Group were taught for
twenty-eight lessons using Task-based in their reading skill. The students of control
group were taught in usual way of teaching. After the experiment, a post-test was
administered with the same set of test items on two groups. The average score of all
the test items were calculated. The results of the tests were compared to find out the
effectiveness of task-based language teaching from the learning achievement. It was
found that task-based teaching was more effective than usual classroom teaching for
reading skill of class ten students since the experimental group had more average
score increasement than that of the control group.
This thesis consists of four chapters. Chapter one is an introductory part which
includes general background, objectives of the study, review of the related literature
and significance of the study. Chapter two includes the methodology adopted to
complete the research. It particularly contains the sources of data, sampling
procedures, tools and process of data collection and limitations of the study. Chapter
three includes the analysis and the interpretation of the data. Chapter four consists
findings and recommendations of the study based on the analysis and interpretation of
the data. This chapter is followed by the references and appendices.