This study was designed to measure English Language Proficiency and to explore attitudinal and motivational factors associated to learning a second language of 8 th grade students in Punjab. The major objectives of the study were included the development of English Language Proficiency Test (ELPT) based on National Curriculum English for Class VIII to measure language proficiency and exploration of attitudinal and motivational factors associated with learning a second language of 8 th grade students across gender and locale groups. The exploration of magnitude of relationship between English language proficiency and attitudinal/motivational factors associated with learning second language across gender and locale groups was also the objective of the present research. To achieve these objectives, null hypotheses were formulated. To test these hypotheses two instruments, i.e. English Language Proficiency Test (ELPT) and Attitude Motivation Scale (AMS) derived from Attitudes/Motivation Test Battery (AMTB) were used to collect the data. Language proficiency test was comprised of three language competencies i.e. reading, writing, and lexical aspects of language. Using two Stage Stratified Random Cluster techniques, 2700 students of 8 th grade were selected as a sample for the present study. For the selection of required sample, 128 schools were proportionally and randomly selected from each stratum. Both the instruments i.e. ELPT and AMS were administered by test administrators. Data collected with the help of both the instruments were tabulated and missing data were replaced appropriately. Different statistical techniques were used to analyze the data. Rash analysis was employed to calibrate items in English Language Proficiency Test (ELPT). The data were calculated and converted into scaled score using IRT based software ConQuest. Pearson Correlation test was used to explore the magnitude of relationship between language proficiency and attitudes of the learners. To investigate proficiency and attitudes & motivation of gender and locale groups, independent sample t-statistics was employed. Similarly, one-way ANOVA and post-hoc statistics were applied to find mean difference and level of significant among different groups like parents’ qualification and occupation and teachers’ qualification, age, and teaching experience. Findings revealed that female and urban students performed better on ELPT as compared to their counterparts. Similarly, female and urban students showed positive attitudes & motivation to learn English language as compared to their counterparts. Overall reading proficiency was better than writing proficiency. The students, whose parents were graduate, performed better. The performance of the students, who were taught by the better-qualified and more experienced teachers, was better. This research study may be beneficial to curriculum developers/reviewers, textbook writers/reviewers, working and perspective teachers to promote standard based education.
میرااستاذ دنیا کے اندر مختلف نسل، مختلف قوم، مختلف مذاہب ،مختلف رنگ اور مختلف نظریات کے لوگ رہائش پذیر ہیں، ہر ایک اپنے اپنے نظریے، اپنے اپنے مذہب ، اپنے اپنے رسم و رواج اور اپنے اپنے طریقہ کار کے تحت ایام ِزیست گزار رہا ہے ، معاشرے میں فلاحی ورکر کا اپنا کردار ہے، اسمبلی کے ممبر کا اپنا کردار ہے، کرسی عدالت پرمتمکن منصف ذیشان کا اپنا کردارہے، ایماندار تا جر کا اپنا کردار ہے، ہنر مند فنکار کا اپنا کردار ہے، دولت مند ساہو کا رکا اپنا کردار ہے، ہوشمند اداکار کا اپنا کردار ہے، سرحدوں کے محافظ کا اپنا کردار ہے ، تہجد گزار عابد کا اپنا کردار ہے، اطاعت گزار ساجد کا اپنا کردار ہے، جامع مسجد کے خطیب کا اپنا کردار ہے، اچھے مصنف اور ادیب کا اپنا کردار ہے،’’ یعنی ہر گُلِ را رنگ و بوئے دیگر است‘‘ ہر پھول کی خوشبو اور رنگ علیحدہ علیحدہ ہے لیکن ان میں جس بات پر اتفاق ہے وہ یہ ہے کہ کوئی ذوی العقول اور حیوان ناطق ایسانہیں کہ جس کا کوئی نہ کوئی استاد نہ ہو کوئی رہبر ورہنماء نہ ہو، کوئی ہادی ومرشد نہ ہو!۔ شومیکر اگر جوتا بنا تا ہے تو اس میں بھی کسی استاد کا ہاتھ ہے، ٹیکسٹائل مل کا مالک اگر کپڑابنتا ہے تو وہ بھی استادکا مرہونِ منت ہے، تا جر ہو یا صنعت کار ، پٹواری ہو یاتحصیلدار ، اکاؤنٹنٹ ہو یا بینکار ، مزارع ہو یا جاگیردار ، زمیں پر چلنے والا ہو یامحو پرواز یہ سب کے سب ٹیچر اور مدرس کے لگائے ہوئے نخل ہیں جواب سروقد ہو چکے ہیں۔ ان سے جہالت اور بے علمی کے خس و خاشاک کو صاف کر کے محنت اور مشقت کا پانی دے کر پروان چڑھانے والی اگر اللہ تعالیٰ کے بعد کوئی ذات...
Hand sanitizers may help increase hand hygiene compliance as the results of invailability of basic needs for cleaning such as soap or water. Since alcohol has an irritating effect on the skin and burns quickly, it is currently discouraged as an active ingredient. Knowledge of covid 19 is critical for the world to have in order for individuals to be able to make informed choices on how to split the covid 19 transmission chain. This thesis employs a pre-experimental method that employs the One Group Pretest-Posttest Design approach. The paired t test was used to examine the relationship between the two variables, namely the betel leaf extract handsanitizer output preparation and the respondent's knowledge of the handsanitizer making process. Extension has an impact on increasing respondents' awareness of how to make natural hand sanitizers. The paired t-test findings indicate that the Sig. = 0.000 0.05, indicating that there is a discrepancy between the pretest and posttest. With a mean value of -5.967, this data indicates the average discrepancy between the pretest and posttest, with a range of -5.383 to -6.551 (95 percent CI), indicating that there is a difference between the pretest and posttest mean values, indicating that the pretest value has an influence on the post test. To stop the spread of Covid19, health care providers and the society must work together.
This research analyses the selected texts of Aravind Adiga and Claude Brown to investigate the Marxian social dialectic as reflected linguistically. The study explores the socioeconomic power at work behind the discourse of the dominant social class and the way this power is used for hegemonic practices. It ascertains the cognitively manipulative role of the socially established identities, as constituted by caste and race, in establishing and maintaining the socioeconomic supremacy of the powerful. It investigates the discursive reaction of the dominated individuals to the socioeconomic monopoly of their exploiters and the way this reaction results in the material progress of the former. This qualitative content analysis establishes its ontological premise on Marx’s dialectical materialism and van Dijk’s socio-cognitive approach. The study uses van Dijk’s socio-cognitive approach as model as well. It selects two different writers, who, through their distinct linguistic choices, represent two different societies with different cultural conditions and different eras, to investigate whether Marx’s concept of social dialectic which involves an endless historical process of the oscillation of the socioeconomic power between the two social classes is linguistically valid. The analysis reflects that the discourse strategies of the powerful social group determine and are also determined by the hegemonic practices of this group for its material interests. It reveals that the semantic features as used in discourse by the powerful class manipulate the dominated cognitively through the socially constituted ideologies. It also shows the realization by the dominated about their manipulation and their subsequent resistance through the same discourse strategies, which results in their socioeconomic amelioration. The study compares the two authors of two different societies and eras and finds that caste as a social identity in the South Asian Indian society is more susceptible to discursive manipulation as compared with race in the African American society and also that the South Asian Indian society offers greater scope discursively for the socioeconomic improvement to the dominated individuals. The study also concludes that Marx’s proposition about the endless historical process of the socioeconomic competition, which causes the oscillation of power between the two social classes, is linguistically effective.