Vocabulary Achievement of Madrasas Vs Public Schools Students of Grade Five

Abstract

This study attempts to find the students' achievement of vocabularyitems included in the textbook of grade four. The students in this study arealtogether eighty in numbers, ten students from each of four Madrasas andfour public schools of Kathmandu valley were selected for this study. The researcher prepared a list of content words (nouns, verbs,adjectives and adverbs) used in the English textbook of grade four andcounted their frequency. She selected the 80 words having high frequency.Thirteen test items were constructed consisted of 80 individual vocabularyitems including 34 nouns, 27 verbs, 12 adjectives and 7 adverbs. The datawere provided by the 80 students offour Madrasas and four public schoolsof Kathmandu valley. The researcher visited four Madrasas and four public schools with aprepared set of test items. Ten students from each school were selected byusing simple random sampling approach in order to administer the test. Thetest was administered in the classroom for one and half an hours. The data obtained were analyzed and interpreted using descriptiveapproach and simple statistical tools i.e. mean and percentage. The findingof the study showed that the English vocabulary achievement of Madrasastudents was found satisfactory but achievement of public school studentswas not found satisfactory. Madrasa students' achievement was found betterthan that of public school students' achievement. The vocabularyachievement of girls in adjectives and adverbs was found better than that ofboys but in nouns and verbs, boys' performance was better than that of girls.The present work is divided into four chapters. The first chapterincludes general background, review of related literature, objectives of thestudy and significance of the study. The second chapter deals with themethodology, which includes sources of data collection and limitations ofthe study. The third chapter is concerned with the analysis and interpretationof data. Findings and recommendations are given in the fourth chapter. Themodels of test items, students' answers, references and interview guidelinesare given in the appendices.