A Comprative Study of the structural and Comprative Approaches in Teaching the Collectional using of prepostions to secondary school students.
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1987-06
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Addis Ababa Universiy
Abstract
Studies of error analysis on subjeots from
different languB.ge baokgrounds hp.ve shown that
the appropriate use of prepositions mRrks one of
the ma jor areas of diffioulty of students learning
English as a foreign language .
In this study, an attempt was made to
determine the relative effeotiveness of the
struotural I'I.nd the communioative aT1~roR()hes in
teaohing the different oollooatio~l'I.l uses of the
nine most frequently used one-word prepositions
in English. A total of 120 grade nine students
randomly sampled f r om Yekatit 12 Comprehensive
Seoondary Sohool oomprised the population of
the experiment. These were di vide c1. into four
groups . Groups I and II made up tbe Control and
Groups III and IV the Experimental Grou!ls.
A pretest was auministered to al l the fOllr
groups to find out wh ether or not the subjeots
had marked di fferences in thej.r leve: of rnastery
of the uses of the prepositions. A two-tRile1 t
test At a significance level of 0.05, nnd 120
degrees of fr Eedom was performed onche level of
contrasting pairs and aggreg~te gr oups. ?indings
showed no signifioant differenoes indic3.ting
that the s2111pled studcnts h"d more or less
equal knowledge of the uses of pr ep~sit ions.
Two sets of teaching lllPterials were
prepared along the lines of the principles of
the structurl'!l and the communicative I'I.pPl'oaches
for the Control I<nd the ::;;xperimental p;ronps
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respectively. The subjects of the exp<;riment
were taught with the respecti.ve r:l"teri:>13 fc:~
ten consecutive weeks. At tile end, R Dosttest
was administeren. Using the Ea.~e fo;.f;l1:'f:i.c:>nce
level and degrees of freedom, tb8 p~'e-Flnd
posttest t-values of each uf -tl1e A.gr;r"{!;'1tes Vlerc
computed to see whether or no'; the subjee;;s
have made a significant gain (or progress) over
their pretest results. The 7.-'ral1Je c; cf the
posttest results were also calou.c3.ted on both
paired and aggregate leve LS . Findings pro',p.d
that the members of the Experj.mentn::_ Gro:!)
have progresser1. considerably in ths:.r kYJ()\'::'.edge
of the uses of prepositions. Tti:.; '-,:",S </~t":j.\J.lted
to the relative effe0tiveness of ~he
c ommunic 8ti ve Rprroacb.