EFFECTIVENESS OF EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION RESOURCE ROOMS ON LEARNING ENGLISH LANGUAGE VOCABULARY

Abstract

This quantitative study investigated the effectiveness of physical facilities of ECE rooms on learning English language vocabulary. The students of government primary schools of Punjab, Pakistan were selected as the population of this study. The sample of the study was the students of a small town of South Punjab, Pakistan.The sample of study consisted of 80 students, equally divided into two groups; experimental and control. The students, reading in ECE rooms,by using all physical facilities of ECE room i.e. the AV aids were taken as experimental group, and the students being taught by using traditional method without using audio-visual aids were taken as control group. Test was delivered to both groups. The test contained the 15mcq’s and each question had two marks. Experimental and control groups were taught for four weeks as a whole. All the students, selected for the study were between four to five years. The data was collected in numbers and after that it was analyzed by statistical method. Data, collected through tests was analyzed by using the descriptive method (i.e., percentage, mean and SD). And inferential statistical methods (i.e. paired-sample t-test and SPSS) were also used toget more reliable results. There was a considerable difference among the scores of pre-test and post-test of control group and experimental group as the significant value was < 0.05. On the basis of data analysis it can be said that the use of ECE rooms and its physical facilities are very useful in teaching and learning of English language vocabulary. Some suggestions and recommendations are described on the basis of findings of this study to increase the effectiveness of ECE setup like more
separate rooms must be built so that the students may be able to learn in small groups. It was also suggested that further studies may explore some other aspects of this area.