ICT BASED INTERVENTION FOR ADDRESSING SPELLING ERRORS: AN ACTION RESEARCH STUDY

This study examined the effectiveness of ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) based intervention on spelling errors of class 5 students in an English medium school. The objectives of the study were to: (i) identify and categorize the common spelling errors made by the students; (ii) develop and implement ICT based activities for addressing those spelling errors; (iii) evaluate the efficacy of the ICT based intervention. Methodology on action research study was followed in this study. The investigator used class 5 (number of students 40) as the sample for this study. Descriptive statistics, pre-intervention test results, and post-intervention test results based on class 5 textbooks were used as data. This study highlighted the importance of action research and ICT based intervention in addressing the spelling error problem. The findings revealed that interventions contributed to minimizing spelling errors among the students. It is therefore recommended that teachers should undertake the theory-driven action research to solve problems and improve the quality of education in general and use appropriate ICT based interventions to address class 5 students' spelling errors in particular.