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    An Experimental Comparison of the Systematic and Incidental of Methods of Teaching Spelling to Grade Nine Ethiopian Students
    (Addis Ababa University, 1985-06) Tecle Ghebremuse
    Thes ttement of the problem which this r esearch is conce rned with is to determine whethe r the incidental me thod or the systematic method i s mo r e e ffectiv e in teaching sp e lling to grade nine Eth i opian students. For this purpose , four sections of grade nine students were selected by drawing l ots. By drawing l ots, they wereals o ass ~ ed t o ~vo sections in t he c ontrol group a nd the other two sections in the experimental group . A pretestwhich was prepared by the researcher was given to both groups. The result of the p r e - test indicated that students in bot.groups had similar b a ckgrounds . For thre e and a half mOlths, the students l earned spelling : the control group through the incident a l me thod in the normal schedule of t I C school and the exp erimenta l group through the systematic method on the basis of the materia ls f or te a chingspel ling prepared by the reasercher. After learning spelling f or three and a half months, a post-test pr ep ared by the researcher was given to the students of both groups t o de t er min e the hypothes$s ,i. e . ( a) t h e Null Hypothesis which states tha t there is no sta tist ically significant difference between t h e incident a l met ~ od and the sys tema tic method in teaching spelling to gr ade nine Ethiop i a n students, and (b) t h e 1.lternate Hypo thesis which s ".; a t es that there is a statistica lly significant difference between the incidental method and the systematic method in teaching spelling to grade nine Ethiopian students.The dat a collected from the pre - test and the posttest have been used for classification a ndev a luation to arrive a t a decision . On the basis of a two-tailed test at a 0 01 level ofsignificance , we would r eject the Null Hypothesis , if the value of t were greater than t. 995 , wh ich f or (NE + NC - 2 )=78 + 80 - 2 = 1 56 degr ee of freedom is 2 .58 . The comp utedvalue of t i s 6 . 08 .Thus, we c onclude tha t at a 0.01 level of significance there is a statistically significant difference in the performance of the students in the experimental and the control groups and we a ccept the ~l ternate Hypothesis at a 0 . 01 level of significance . In addition to this, the analysis of the responses of the questionnaire shows results similar to the t-Test which is in favour of the sys t ematic method of teaching spelling . On the basis of these findings, it was conc luded that the systematic me thod is more effective than the incidenta lmethod in t eaching spelling to gr ade n ine Ethi opian students.Rec omme ndations are made on the basis of these findings that curriculum designers, textbook writers, and educators need to recons i der their r o l es in promoting the meth od and the process of learning-teaching spelling and that further research i s ne c essary on the effective t eachin~ of spelling .