Effectiveness Of Activity Based Method on Students’ Achievement in English Subject at Secondary Level in Kahuta District AJ&K

Abstract

Quality of education basically depends on the method of teaching adopted by the teachers in the classroom. Generally, child centered and participatory approach should be followed in the classroom for teaching. Teaching through activities thus yields good results among the students in teaching-learning process. The research was an experimental study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of activity-based method vs. traditional method. The objectives were to compare the learning effects of group with traditional method and activity-based method. The study was delimited to 50 students of grade 9th student at Kahuta District. The research was true experimental. The research design followed by researcher is the pre-test post-test group design. Initially pre-test was administered in control group and experimental group. Post-test was taken after the completion of the experiment. This implies that the experimental group taught English using Activity-Based method achieved significantly higher scores than the control group taught the same concepts using the Lecture teaching strategy.

Key words: Activity based method, Effectiveness, English 9th grade