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Exploring the Perceptions of Teachers Regarding the Role of the Tblt Approach in Enhancing the Oral Communicative Skills of Grade Five Students: A Study of Private Urban Primary School in Karachi
An innovative teaching approach of Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) such as Task-based Language Teaching (TBLT) plays a vital role in the effective teaching and learning of second language skills, specifically the oral communicative skills. Thus, the teachers’ professional development according to the need of time is very important, because learners’ learning of second skills depend on the content and pedagogical content knowledge of teachers. In Pakistan most of the student at public and private schools are observed by performing poorly in their oral communicative skill of English language during the process and after completing their graduations due to several factors highlighted by different studies (Ahmed, 2017; Bano, 2016). Hence, the purpose of this research was to explore the perceptions of TESOL teachers regarding TBLT as an innovative approach and its role in the improvement of the oral communicative skill of English language in grade five. The study was conducted through an exploratory case study and interviews, document analysis and observations were used as data collections tools. Data were collected from two primary TESOL teachers of urban private ABC primary school in Karachi, Pakistan. Major findings of the study were: the poor conception of by TESOL primary teachers about TBT, communicative skills, teaching of oral communicative skill, the role of teachers, leaners and teaching resources, use of local languages and the hindering factors such as the standardized exams system; the non-alignment of textbooks, exam system and curriculum development, teaching resources, teacher, student and classroom related factors. Thus, the findings of the study suggest that curriculum developers, policy makers and teacher educators must sit together for bringing about an alignment in the curriculum, textbooks and the examination system in the context of school. Furthermore, the finding of the study suggests that, the teachers by developing their professional knowledge and skill and by using the TBLT approach could improve the oral communicative skills of grade five learners. In this way the early age fluency gradually help the learners in improving of their accuracy and competency in English oral communicative skills.
مایوسی گناہ ہے اللہ تعالیٰ نے انسان کو اشرف المخلوقات بنایا اور پھر اس کے سر پر عظمت کا تاج سجایا۔ اس کو دیگر مخلوقات پر فوقیت دی، اس کی عظمت کا راز اس کی عقل سلیم میں رکھا کیونکہ دیگر مخلوقات میں شرف و بزرگی کا عنقاء عدم عقل و خرد ہے، اور پھر اُس کوصحیح اور غلط کی پہچان نصیب فرمائی۔ اور اُس کی رفعت کے حصول کے لیے کوشش کومحمودگردانا۔ ارشاد ِباری تعالیٰ ہے کہ ’’انسان کے لیے وہی کچھ ہے جس کے لیے وہ کوشش کرے۔‘‘ اگر ہاتھ پر ہاتھ دھرے بیٹھار ہے اور تگ و دو اور شبانہ روز کوشش سے دست کش ہو جائے مایوسی کے ظلمت کدہ کا مکیں بن جائے ، نا امیدی کے عفریت کے جبڑوں میں پھنس جائے تو پھر بلیّات و مصائب کے مہیّب سائے تو اُس کے آنگن میں آ سکتے ہیں ، خوش بختی اور خوش نصیبی کے آفتاب کی کرنوں سے اس کا گھر محروم رہے گا۔ مایوسی و یسے گناہ ہے۔ نا امیدی کے سائے کے نیچے پروان چڑھنے والا پودا کبھی شجر سایہ دار نہیں بن سکتا۔ نا امیدی کے گلستان میں کھلنے والے گلہائے رنگا رنگ خوشبو کی راحت افزاء مہک سے عاری ہوتے ہیں ، مایوسی کے خار ہائے نوک دار پر پاپیادہ شخص آبلہ پائی کا شکار ہوسکتا ہے ہریرو پرنیاں اور مخمل کا احساس اُس سے کوسوں دور ہوتا ہے۔ قرآنِ پاک میں ارشادِ باری تعالیٰ ہے کہ ’’ لا تقنطو من رحمۃ اللہ‘‘اللہ تعالیٰ کی رحمت سے نا امید مت ہوں ۔ بحثیت مسلمان تو نا امیدی ویسے بھی گناہ اور حرام ہے۔ انسان جب امید سے اپنے دامن کو پر رکھتا ہے تو مسرتیں اور راحتیں اس کے دروازے پر دستک دیتی رہتی ہیں۔ اور امید ہی کی کرن اس کو حیات نوبخشتی ہے۔ کسان...
Background of the Study: Lockdown was implemented worldwide to limit the spread of COVID-19. This sudden implementation of lockdown causes significant lifestyle changes for every individual. Along with the general population, it also has psychological, behavioral, and physical consequences on athletes. The study objective is to determine the occurrence of lower extremity musculoskeletal injuries during the COVID-19 lockdown in athletes.
Methodology: Retrospective cross-sectional study design was used, and participants were recruited by a non-probability convenient sampling technique. A sample size of 147 was taken as calculated by the Raosoft software, and the study was completed 6 months. Both male and female athletes between the age group of 18-35 years, participants who did not participate in any official training session during the lockdown and registered at domestic level for at least 2 years were recruited from Pakistan Sports Board and Wapda Sports Complex Lahore. Data was collected using a semi-structured questionnaire. Nordic Musculoskeletal Questionnaire was used to identify the problematic painful areas of body. Data entry, analysis, and interpretation were done by using SPSS software version 22.0.
Results: The mean age and BMI of participants were 25.6531±4.49 (years) and 23.28±3.24 (kg/m2) respectively. From the total, 39.5% of participants reported lower extremity musculoskeletal injuries. And most reported problematic areas include lower back and knee. 75% of participants continue to do workouts at home as a prevention strategy against injury occurrence.
Conclusion: This concluded that the occurrence of lower extremity musculoskeletal injuries during the lockdown was moderate.
My thesis explores the problem of unequal development within the federation of Pakistan with reference to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province from August 1947 to July 1977. In the development paradigm regionalism/provincialism is considered as a petty bourgeois phenomenon; my thesis refutes this viewpoint and considers the problematic of regionalism as inherent in capital logic. Maximization of profit engenders centralization of capital and concentration of resources thereby creating the dualism of core and periphery. The process of capital accumulation generates the contradiction of development and underdevelopment, Centre and periphery, core and hinterland. Development at the centre/core perpetuates underdevelopment in the periphery/hinterland. Poverty in the periphery is neither the poverty of natural resources nor the poverty of human resources; it is the enigma of capitalist growth. The problematic of core/periphery, centre/hinterland gains extra significance due to federal status of Pakistan where both the centre and the provinces derive power from the Constitution and neither one is subordinate to each other unlike a unitary state. My study however, unravels a different process, the State uses constitutional jurisdiction to legitimize power accumulation. In order to maintain hegemony over the civil society the state centralizes power, moreover this concentration of power is essential to fulfill accumulation and reproduction of capital as well. To do so the factors of production are mobilized to the areas with maximum return; as a consequence labour, capital and raw material from peripheral provinces is invested in the core regions. The state Legitimizes capital accumulation by concentrating political power in the centre through the Constitution, relegating the provinces to a subsidiary role. The second source of legitimation by the state is the academic and religious institutions as well as communication media (the ideological apparatuses). Besides the ideological institutions the state seeks support from the military, police, bureaucracy (repressive/coercive apparatuses) as well as landlords and bourgeoisie owning the means of production. Finally, hegemony is maintained by reorganizing the power bloc, hurting individual capitals in the process but protecting the total capital. My research is an holistic analysis of Unequal development in its historical, political and economic dimensions unraveling the Centre/Periphery problematic within the Federation of Pakistan with reference to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.