Innovative Strategy for Teaching and Learning English Grammar

Dr ( Mrs.) Manisha Vinay IndaniHOD, School of Education,

North Maharashtra University, (NMU) Jalgaon (Maharashtra), India

&Dr. (Mrs.) Kiran Dammani

Principal Shri Gujarati Samaj B.Ed. College, Indore

Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India

INTRODUCTIONSome students find English as a difficult subject, they may take more time to learn, understand, and remember while some other find it quite easy subject. To cater the need of all these learner, Self Learning Material was developed by the investigator. This material was uploaded on the specially designed and developed Website to make it easily assessable for the learner. The main objective of this study was to develop Self Learning Material of English Grammar for the Students of Junior Colleges and study its effectiveness in terms of Concept Attainment of English Grammar

OBJECTIVEThe main objective of this study was to develop

Digitalized Self Learning Material ( DSLM) of English grammar for the students of junior colleges.

The second objective was to compare adjusted mean scores of Concept Attainment of English grammar concepts of students learnt through DSLM and Conventional Method by considering Pre concept attainment of English Grammar Concepts as covariate

Junior College: - In Maharashtra the word Junior college was used for the class XI and XII.

SAMPLE

Using Multi Stage sampling Technique, eight junior colleges from Jalgaon District were selected. In Maharashtra English is taught as compulsory subject in the Junior College.

All these eight collages have Arts, Commerce and Science stream. Total 805 students were selected as a sample for the study.

DESIGN

The present study employed Non-equivalent Control Group Design.

O1 X O3---------------------------

O2 ---- O4

TOOLS Digitalized Self Learning Material: The material

was developed in the form of Concept Map, PLM, PPT and Mind Map. Website www.learngrammareasy.com, was specially developed by the Investigator to upload the Self Learning Material .

Concept Attainment Test:- data was collected with the help Concept Attainment Test developed by the Investigator

PROCEDURE FOR DATA COLLECTION

Two groups were formed. Experimental group learnt the English grammar

topics with the help of website while control group learnt the English Grammar

topics by following conventional method. The test of English Grammar Concept Attainment

was administered on both the groups.The students of experimental group were

demonstrated the use of web site www.learngrammareasy.com for the self study of grammar.

fifteen days were suggested for the study of each topic

feed beck sessionConcept wise online test, practice tutorial

were also uploaded At the end of the treatment, English Grammar

Concept Attainment Test was again administered on both the groups

FINDING AND DISCUSSION

The first objective was to develop Digitalized Self Learning Material, It was developed in various form like Concept Maps, Mind Maps, Flow Chart, and PLM by the investigator. This material was uploaded on the specially designed and developed website www.learngrammareasy.com to make it easily assessable for the students.

The data related to the second objective was analyzed with the help of Adjusted Mean and Analysis of Covariance. The results are given in Table 1.2

Table 1.2: Summary of ANCOVA of Concept Attainment of English Grammar Concepts by considering Pre-Attainment of English Grammar Concepts as Covariate

Source of Variance Df SSy.x MSSy.x Fy.x

Treatment 1 436.14 436.14 38.18**

Error 761 8693.78 11.424

Total 764 580815

From Table 1.2, it can be seen that the adjusted F- value is 38.18, which is significant at 0.01 level with df = 1/761. It indicates that the adjusted mean scores of Concept attainment of English Grammar Concepts DSLM group(28.09) and Conventional Method (CM) Group (2.57) differed significantly.

Implications

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