Effectiveness of Concept Attainment Model in Teaching English Language

Abstract

Language plays a key role in every domain of student life. In the Indian context, there is diversity in language in our Indian culture but there is a hidden unity inside. Now a day the process of education has changed drastically in the 21st century. With the advanced development of technology, language learning in all its forms has become very challenging today. There has been a huge gap in teacher teaching and students learning. Amidst such condition it has been found by the researcher that model based teaching overcomes the above problem. As far as concepts in language learning are concerned, CAM can be very effective.
In the present study researcher choose CAM method of instruction to teach concepts of English Language grammar namely nouns and adjectives with the objective to assess the effectiveness of CAM and also assess its effect in relation to Gender. As researcher wants to assess the effectiveness of the CAM, he selects experiment research method in which “Two group only Post Test” research design was selected. After 14 days treatment given to both randomly selected groups researcher collect the data with the help of blue-print based Self constructed achievement test consisting 50 multiple choice questions carrying 1 mark each. As a Sample one school of Ahmedabad city was selected purposively for experiment in which two classes were selected randomly consisting total 85 students. Man Whitney U-test was applied to check the null hypotheses. It was found that teaching through CAM was found to be more effective than Traditional Method of teaching and effect of gender was not found significant. This would be helpful to imply that Teachers can be trained to use CAM teaching strategy for language teaching in schools.