Effectiveness of Realia in Teaching English Vocabulary

Abstract

This research entitled “Effectiveness of Realia in Teaching Vocabulary” aimed to figure out the effectiveness of applying realia in teaching English vocabulary. This is an experimental research in type. To accomplish this research, I had chosen twenty six students of grade five from one of the community schools running in Nijgadh Municipality of Bara district. Firstly, I administered a set of questions regarding vocabulary as pre – test in order to observe the existing competence of the students. Next, I divided the students in two different groups; experimental and controlled group implying non – random sampling procedure. I took the classes, from 15th May 2023 to 22nd June 2023, applying realia in experimental group and lecture method in controlled group. Those groups were formed to experiment effectiveness of realia in teaching primary students on English vocabularies of their level. Finally, in order to accumulate the data, I administered the same set of questions to find out their outcomes. The result showed huge difference between the outcomes of the both groups. The result portrayed that experimental group led the controlled group by average score 9.83. It revealed that use of realia for teaching English vocabulary in primary level is more satisfactory than that of lecture method. This study contains total five chapters. Chapter one includes background of the study, statement of the problem, objectives of the study, research questions, significance of the study, delimitations of the study and operational definitions of the key terms. Likewise, chapter two comprises review of related theoretical literature, review of empirical literature, implication of the study and conceptual framework. Furthermore, chapter three consists of methods and procedures applied for the study that comprises design of the study, population, sample and sampling strategies, research tools, sources of data (Primary and Secondary), data collection procedures, data analysis procedure and ethical considerations. Besides, chapter four incorporates analysis of data and interpretations. Finally chapter five embraces findings, conclusion and recommendations. References and appendices have been attached at the end of this study.