In my primary class I use story-based "non formal English lesson", which is based mostly on extensive readings and learning some vocabulary. I need to make an assessment of their progress and a comparison with another ESL class, same level but different language method. How to assess formaly their learning ? I see their progress in their use of English and I can hear their vocabulary expands. However if beforehand their pleasure and their enjoyement were my goals, my research requires now concret results. Any leads ?
I recommend an experimental research design in which you can compare the scores of both treatment and control group in both pretest and posttest, with the condition that they take the same class using a short story for treatment group and no treatment for the control group. This method can show how effective it is short story based reading tool. However using a different reading material makes your research less valid. In applied research we try to find solutions to the students problems so I think you should share your findings even it was just for the sake of helping the students.
You have to decide on an index to use to measure narrative discourse production (such as lenght of clauses, number of words, pragmatics, macroanalysis etc) and assess how far they have acquired the English language and then compare this to the other language using the same induces of discourse production (provided they use the same story for assessment) and then you should be able to see how far and where precisely the progress/weakness is in your students
Dear Evelyne,
Please look at the following link:
Article Teaching English through Stories: A Meaningful and Fun Way f...
In order to measure ability, you will need a valid, reliable (and methodologically impartial) test. To measure progress, you will need to administer the test before and after the courses.
Please check:
http://dlibra.bg.ajd.czest.pl:8080/Content/2061/17.pdf
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