اثر طريقة تدريس انماط الجملة في تحصيل طلبة الجامعة == The Effect of The Approach To Teaching Sentence Patterns On The Achievement of The University Students
Author name:
اشواق عبد المهدي حسين التميمي
Supervisor name:
عبد اللطيف علوان الجميلي | الهام نامق خورشيد الخالدي
General topic:
Educational Sciences
Specific topic:
Methods of Teaching English Language
Degree:
Master
University:
University of Diyala - Faculty Of Basic Education
Language:
English
University location:
Diyala
First pages:
05T2552 - p.pdf
Abstract:
اثر طريقة تدريس انماط الجملة في تحصيل طلبة الجامعةان الغرض الاساس من تدريس مادة النحو الانكليزي مساعدة الطلبة على استخدام اللغة الانكليزية بصورة صحيحة ومناسبة، عليه فانه من الاهمية القصوى ان يخصص جزء من الحصة التدريسية لتدريس النحو واتاحة الفرصة للطلب | The primary purpose of instruction in English grammar is to help students use English correctly and appropriately. It is of vital importance to devote some classroom time to teaching grammar and having students practise grammatical patterns so as to help them gain comptence and confidence in the language. In this regard , Rutherford ( 1987 : 1 ) affirms “ that through grammar the learner can make words effective and become master of his own grammatical enviornment ”. Huebener ( 1969 : 98 ) defines grammar as “ the syntactical structure of a language ” , while Palmer ( 1974 : 9 ) views that it is a complex set of relations. It is a device that specifies the infinite set of well - formed sentences and assigns to each of them one or more structural descripltions. That is to say it tells us just what are all the possible sentences of a language and provides a descripition of them. This is no small task , but one that is well worthy of human study. The grammar of a language generates the sentences of that language : it assigns to each sentence a set of representations which provide the formal characterization of some of the properties ( semantic , syntactic , morphological , etc. ) of the sentence.. (Haegeman & Gueron , 1999 : 582 )Each grammatical category has its own features , linguistic complexities , and difficulties. So the quality and quantity of learners’ mistakes differ from one grammatical category to another. English sentence patterns ( henceforth , ESPs ) constitute a very difficult learning area - university teachers have always complained that Iraqi University students do not normally recognize and use these patterns.The present study deals with studying empirically the effect of the approach to teaching sentence patterns on the achievement of the university students. The study aims at : 1. Assessing the effectiveness of the approach to teaching two sets of sentence patterns, i - e, whether any of the two approaches, namely, Quirk & Greenbaum’s ( 1973 ) or Stageberg’s (1971) yields better results than the other. 2. Identifying difficulties in sentence patterns faced by the university learners of English. It is hypothesized that there is no statistically significant difference between the students who are taught sentence patterns according to Quirk & Greenbaum’s (1973) and those who are taught according to Stageberg’s (1971) approach. A four - week experiment has been carried out by adopting the “ post test - only, equivalent groups ” design in order to fulfil the first aim of the study and to verify the hypothesis. Forty third - year students from College of Education / University of Diala and College of Arts / University of Baghdad are randomly selected to represent the study sample as “ experimental - group - experimental group ”; tewenty students in each group. Both groups have been matched in term of : level of fathers’ education, level of mothers’ education and level of subjects’ achievement in English Grammar of the previous year.The teaching material was limited to chapter ( 7 ) in “ A University Grammar of English ” of Quirk & Greenbaum’s (1973) and to chapter ( 14 ) in “ An Introductory English Grammar ” of Stageberg’s (1971). The researcher has constructed a written post test ; After estimating the validity and reliability of the two tests , they were administered to the two groups at the end of instruction. T - test, Chi - Square, Kuder - Richardson (20) formula , Spearman coefficient correlatrons were used through out the procedures and results analysis. The ‘ t ’ test for independent samples has been used to find out the significant difference between the two experimental groups. The calculated ‘ t ’ value is higher than the ‘ t ’ critical value which indicates that there is a significant difference between the two groups at 0.05 level of significance. The analysis of data shows that the calculated ‘ t ’ value at ( 0.05 ) level and ( 38 ) degree of freedom is ( 2.937 ) as compared with the ‘ t ’ critical value which is ( 2.021 ) indicates that the experimental group who were taught according to Stageberg’s (1971) is highly better than the experimental group who were taught according to Quirk & Greenbaum’s (1973). The statistical analysis of the data has yielded the following major results : the two approaches may be attributed to the techniques used in explaining sentence patterns. Sentence patterns are presented in Quirk & Greenbaum’s (1973) in a brief way, i - e, seven patterns, while Stageberg’s approach ( 1971 ) outline nine patterns with more explanation for each pattern. In the light of these results, relevant conclusions are drawn and a number of recommendations and suggestions are put forward.
Summary:
05T2552 - A.pdf
References:
05T2552 - R.pdf
