DEVELOPMENT OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE COMMUNICATION SKILLS IN B.ED STUDENT

This paper attempts to study the interactive effect of socio economic status and the instructional programme on English Language Communication Skills of B.Ed. students. For this purpose, an intervention programme based on English language communication skills of about 40 hours was developed for B.Ed. students. Socio economic status inventory of Patel 1997 was used to measure SES of B.Ed. students. A structured evaluation rubric was used to measure English language communication skills of student-teachers. The participants of the study included 70 B.Ed. students in the experimental and control groups each. The experimental group received the intervention programme whereas the control group did not receive any such programme. The data were analysed using ANCOVA. It was found that the instructional programme was effective in enhancing English language communication skills in B.Ed. students. The effect size of the intervention programme on the English language communication skills in B.Ed. students was found to be 8.85which is high in magnitude