The Structural V the Form - Function Approach to The Teaching or English Modal Auxiliaries at University Freshman Level
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1986-06
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to find out the
relative effectiveness between the structural approach
and the form-function approach in the teaching of the
modal auxiliaries to Addis Ababa University first year
students 0 An experiment, in which a sample population
one hundred and three in four groups took part, was
conducted for eight wceks , Two of the four groups
formed the control group and the other two formed the
experimental groupn
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Two sets of teaching materials were prepared for
both groups on the bases of the pedagogical principles
of the stated lanGuage teaching approacheso The control
groups were taught in the structural approach and the
experimental groups in the form-function approacho There
were two participating teachers each having one control
and one experimental group .•
At the end of the experiment, an achievement test
was administered to both the control and experimental
groups 0 Statistical tests showed that the average score
of the experimental groups was significantly greater
than those of the control groupso Therefore, the null
hypothesis that there vlOuld not be any significant
difference between tho achievement test average scores
of the control and experimental groups attributable to
the adoption of the lorn-function approach had to be
rej ect ed , A conclusion vas drawn that the form-function
approach was more effective· than the structural approach
in the teaching of the Llodal auxiliaries to Addis Ababa
Uni versi ty first year students
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Teaching or English Modal Auxiliaries