Group Teaching Strategies and Students’ Learning: An Experimental Approach for Teaching of Sentence Structure
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Human Capital Investment, Illiterate Labour Force, Educated Labour Force, Technology Innovation, PakistanAbstract
We express our views and thoughts with the help of words in both speaking and writing. We use small phrases and sentence for communication and expression. In English grammar sentence structure is the arrangement of words, phrases and clauses in a sentence. The grammatical function and meaning depends on this structural organization. The most common order in English sentence is subject-verb-object. Teaching of English at primary level is not only to teach a lesson and write a list of vocabulary. The main objectives of teaching English is to develop the four skills of a students which is Reading, Writing, listening and speaking. To know better about these four skills, we must have to learn its principles of sentence structure and grammar rules as well. The old English curriculum was only focused on reading skill of a student. Mostly students are not aware of sentence structure. Sentence structure is not only the collection of words and sounds. Sentence structure the central aspect of each sentence. Pakistani students do many mistakes in writing and speaking of English language. In this study we will teach sentence structure through activity-based learning small group teaching strategy. The study was experimental in nature and from true experimental design pretest posttest comparative group design was adopted. Through the results of pretest two randomly equal groups were framed and treatment was given to the experimental group. At the end of the treatment, posttest was taken from both groups to measure the effect of traditional and small groups teaching strategy on students learning sentence structure.
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