Remedial Teaching Treatment on School Students in English Teaching

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Meeta Kumawat, Dr. Shruti Tiwari

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Remedial teaching in which objective of teaching is to make improvement in learning process and to bring change in behavior so that student  may not repeat the mistake during learning English. In this teaching a teacher makes remedy after knowing the errors of students just as a doctor treats the patient with medicine after diagnosis. The primary aim of teaching/learning English should be concentration on the fundamental skills of language learning i.e. listening, reading, writing and speaking. But learners commit grammatical errors without being aware of them. So, the teacher uses various measures in applying remedial teaching to rectify those errors after diagnosing them. This study is an attempt to know the status of Errors of English Language after the Remedial treatment on School Student. Objectives of the study is to check the status of errors done in English language after the remedial treatment on school students through the selected quasi-experimental research design. For sampling the researcher selected 200 students as a sample. The researcher after finding their errors of different areas prepared total five remedial plans for the selected group to treat them on remedial teaching. First remedial plan was made on the Preposition and Articles. Second was on Adjective and Verb. Then Antonyms and fourth on topic of Sentence Formation and last was on Punctuation and Conjunction. Each remedial plan was taught seven times to the selected samples and discussed regularly on the committed errors. For pronunciation the researcher made efforts on loud reading by the students and gave them some difficult words from each remedial plan to pronounce correctly. After completing treatment post-test was administered on the sample and marks were collected for the purpose to statically analyze through t-test by computing pre and post scores before and after the remedial teaching. It was concluded remedial teaching is an effective corrective measure to improve the status of English language errors of school students.

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