TY  - JOUR
TT  - ANALYZING THE UTILITY OF GRAMMAR TRANSLATION METHOD & DIRECT METHOD FOR TEACHING ENGLISH AT INTERMEDIATE LEVEL
AU  - Bhatti, Muhammad Safdar
AU  - Mukhtar, Rafia
PY  - 2017
DA  - April
DO  - 10.18768/ijaedu.309803
JF  - IJAEDU- International E-Journal of Advances in Education
JO  - IJAEDU
PB  - OCERINT International Organization Center of Academic Research
WT  - DergiPark
SN  - 2411-1821
SP  - 60
EP  - 67
VL  - 3
IS  - 7
KW  - Grammar translation method
KW  - Direct Method
KW  - Effectiveness
KW  - Combination
N2  - English isconsidered as fascinating and laureates’ language in Pakistan. It has alsobecome a status symbol in our society. Pakistani learners are facing difficultywhile studying English because they are not taught English as a skill rather asa subject. For the benefits of students, language teachers had a thrust toinvent new methods to satisfy their students’ needs. The current study wasdesigned to explore the utility of combination of grammar translation methodand direct method for teaching English at intermediate level. The nextobjective was to investigate the impact of teaching methods on theeffectiveness of teachers separately. All the intermediate level teachers fromdistrict Bahawalpur were the population of the study. Four hundred teacherswere selected randomly from eighty colleges with equal participation of malesand females. A self-constructed instrument Teaching Methods Survey (TMS) wasused. Data were analyzed with the help of SPSS version 22. The results revealedthat there exists a significant difference between male and female teachers’effectiveness. The mean score shows that female teachers had improvedeffectiveness as compared with male teachers. There exists non-significantdifference between DM and GTM. A non-significant difference was found betweenmale and female teachers. The analysis revealed a significant differencebetween male and female teachers. The mean score shows that female teachers hadbetter effectiveness as compared with male teachers. It is recommended thatthere should be use of both teaching methods in the context of Pakistan. Nosingle method is successful.
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