The Effectiveness of Teaching English as Foreign Language Through Grammar Consciousness-Raising Activities to Ninth Grade Students
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1994-06
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to find out the effectiveness of the Grammar
Consciousness-Raising activities, in comparison with that of English For New Ethiopia:
Pupil; ·-.Book - 9, to the teaching of English tenses to ninth grade students. The $tUdy
involved sample population of 52 students, out of which only 40 students attended the
experimental classes regularly and took the Achievement-·test. There were two study
GrouW<UJd two Control Groups. The Control Groups were taught through English For
New Ethiopia Pupils' Book - 9, and the Study Groups were taught through the
Grammar-Consciousness-Raising activities. There were two participating teachers who
were assigned to teach one, COntrol and one Study group each.
Achievement-test was prepared and given before and after the experiment both
to the Study and Control Groups to see the progress they made due to the experimental
teaching. Statistical test showed that the average score of the Overall Study Groups
was significantly greater than that of the Overall Control Groups. Therefore, the Null
Hypothesis that there would not be any significant difference between the effectiveness
of the methods of teaching used in the Study and Control Groups had to be rejected.
The conclusion drAwn is that the Grammar Consciousness-Raising activities should be
incorporated in the teaching of English in Ethiopian schools.
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Grammar Consciousness-Raising