Developing Learners' Second Language Communicative Competence through Active Learning: Clickers or Communicative Approach?
Year: 2014
Type: article
Study design: Clinical Trial
Abstract: The purpose of this study was to compare the impact of clickers, the communicative approach and the lecture method on the communicative competence development of learners who were taught English a second language (ESL). Ninety nine pupils from three primary schools participated in the study. Quasi-experimental nonrandomised pre-test posttest control group design was adopted for the study. A battery of English Language Listening Tests and English Language Speaking Tests were used to measure pupils ’ communicative competence. Study’s data were analysed using boxplot, paired samples t-test, Analysis of covariance and multiple regression analyses. Findings indicated that, there was a significant difference between the communicative competence pre-test and post-test scores of pupils in each of the groups. Furthermore, across the groups, there was a significant difference in pupils ’ communicative competence post-test scores based on the teaching strategy. Multiple regression analysis results revealed that 84.9 % of the variance of pupils ’ communicative competence was accounted for by a combination of the predictor variables. Speaking skills was the potent contributor while gender did not make a significant contribution to the prediction of pupils ’ communicative competence in ESL classrooms.
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2133797527