The Effect of Community Language Learning Method on Female Jordanian Tenth Grade Students' Achievement

Abstract

This study aimed at investigating the effect of
Community Language Learning method (CLL) in teaching
English grammar on tenth grade students` achievement. This
study tried to answer the following two questions:1- What is
the effect, if any, of the CLL in grammar upon the achievement
of tenth grade students?, 2- To what extent does the
effectiveness of CLL method correlate with tenth grade
students` levels of linguistic competence (i.e. high,
intermediate, poor)? The population of the study consisted of
104 female tenth grade in Al-Shawbak District in the
academic year 2006/2007. A purposeful sample which
consisted of 58 tenth grade students was distributed into
experimental and control groups. To achieve the purpose of
the study, a grammar test was used before and after the
treatment to measure the equivalence of the two groups with
regard to their level of achievement in grammar. T-test was
used to find out if there was any statistically significant
difference (at α=0.05) in the students` achievement. The
findings of the study reported statistically significant
difference between the students who were taught through
using CLL and those who were taught by the traditional
method of teaching in favor of CLL. The study concluded that
students who studied English grammar by using CLL tended to
have high linguistic competence when compared to students
who studied English grammar by using the traditional method.
The researchers recommended that curriculum planners and
teachers of English adapt the CLL for teaching English
language grammar