content and Effectiveness of instructional Radio programes for the Teaching of English in Ethiopian Elementery Schools
No Thumbnail Available
Date
1987-06
Authors
Journal Title
Journal ISSN
Volume Title
Publisher
Addis Ababa University
Abstract
··.This thesis comprises o f a descri ptive and experimental study.
The study h2s been conducted t o investigate the content and test the
effectiveness of the English teaching radio programmes that are
broadcast to supplement the classroom English teaching . Each of the
grades :rom three to six , "hich are the gracie levels for En glish in
Ethiopian e lementary schools, receives twenty six programmes in twenty
six wee~s in one academic y ea r . This s tudy describes a ll " tbe one
hundred and four progr ammes aired for the four grade levels mentioned
above . The relationship of the English teaching radio programr.Jes \·,i th
the classroom items and/or the English curriculum f or the eler.Jentnry
schools has been l ooked into. The suitability of the selec t ed items
for radio presen t ation has also been seen in t he li ght of the l engthy
theoretical discussion contained in Chapter lIon the n~ture of radio
as a teaching media And the prin ciple s of selecti on , g r ada t ion ,
presentation and repetition for teaching English by radio.
The investigation thus carrie ,l out indicates that too many
items are included ( f or the 15 minutes duration of each of the
proGr"p;r.1es) ill the r adio programmes f or grade t hree and f our with
continuing decrease in grades five and six - a t rend tha t should have
boen reversed . The suitability for radi o presentation of the items for
g r ade three has been found t o be satisfactory in that 116 of the 147
vocabuL,ry items could be demonst r ated by pictures and/or actions ,
objects , models . hgain in here the degree of suitability for radio
pr esentation of the se l ected items decresses in grades four , five and
six .
The second part of this study describes thirty two (eight from
~ach grade ) of the one hundred and four programmes fo r points considered
to be relevant for the programmes being e ffective t o t each t he items
contained in them . This investigation indicates that the programmes are
loaded "i th rote repeti tion drills and l ong sentences f or repeti tion
exercises; contain too few cues for pupil overt responses. The mode of
presentation , however , has been found to be su itable for radi oo
2
2
Furthermor e , the same thirty-tw o programmRs ha ve a l s6 been
t ested in an ac tua l classroom s itua ti on by comparisons of pre and
post broadcas t oral t ~s t results of sampled students in three
r a n domly selected elem entary sohools in Bahir Dar tow~Gojjam
re gion . Two t a iled t - t e sts of s i gnificance run for the thirty two
proGr~~mes indica t e tha t twenty e i ght of them have been e ff ective ,
b oth at . 01 and . 001. probability leve l , t o te a ch the items
contained in the" Howe ver , t he wtite f has men tione d possi ble
r eas ons for the success indic a t ed by the s t a tistics and lists some
recommenda ti ons tha t might help t o upgra~e the quality of the
Engli sh teAching r a dio prog rammes produced in the future .
Description
Keywords
Teaching