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- Title
Issues in the Development of English Language for the Engineering Students -- A Classroom Experiment.
- Authors
Barla, Venkateswarlu; Barla, Abhishek
- Abstract
Classroom experiments are activities where any number of students work in groups on carefully designed guided inquiry questions. Materials provide students with the means of collecting data through interaction with typical laboratory materials, data simulation tools or a classroom environment, with a series of questions and discussions that lead to discovery-based learning. This study involved an experiment for development of English language for the first year Engineering students at Visakhapatanam, India on a sample of 108 students out of 120 students of section -A & Section-B. This Classroom experiment differed from classroom demonstration because the students were involved in participation. However, just as in an interactive class room demo, students involved in the classroom experiment were be asked to make predictions and to reflect upon their observations (Brown, H. D. (1990).It involved collecting observations or observing actions to try to answer a question or solve a problem. However, there were research and teaching experiments. Classroom experiments did this as part of a class to help students learn more about the material they were studying. In this case, the hypothesis to be tested was derived from material contained in textbooks or other course materials. The experiment involved both control and treatment groups in order to facilitate comparison. In the classroom, an observational experiment where students "see what happens" was also used when they were in discussions and presentations. The experiment involved comparison of LSRW system with a newly proposed system of L.O.U.D.E.R (Listening, Observing, Understanding, Discussing, Experiencing, Reviewing). When results of the experiment were collated it was found that the students opted for the new system. However large scale studies are recommended to institutionalize the proposed system.
- Subjects
INDIA; ENGLISH language education for foreign speakers in elementary schools; ENGINEERING student research; SECOND language acquisition; LANGUAGE &; languages; ETHNOLOGY
- Publication
Language in India, 2012, Vol 12, Issue 12, p24
- ISSN
1930-2940
- Publication type
Article