Concord in English Grammar. Problems and Recommendations for Senior High School Students

Master's Thesis from the year 2015 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Pedagogy, Literature Studies, University of Education, language: English, abstract: The major problem investigated in this study is the difficulties senior high school students encounter in the use of concord in English grammar. The purpose of the study was to identify these concord learning challenges, find out why those challenges exist and find appropriate ways to help the students. The instruments used to collect data were intervention tests. The research design included pre-intervention, intervention and post-intervention.The study discovered that most of the students could not apply the rules of concord correctly. They had very serious problems with subject-verb concord. Most students applied concord rules correctly to a very large extent after they were taken through the rules guiding concord in the intervention procedure. In conclusion, this research has proved that an intervention procedure is very important in assisting students to overcome their concord learning challenges.

Product details

• Authors: Justine Bakuuro
• Publisher: Grin Verlag
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2020
• EAN: 9783346244932
• ISBN: 978-3-346-24493-2
• No. of pages: 136
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 9 mm x 10 mm
• Weight: 208 g
• Series: Akademische Schriftenreihe Bd. V931496
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology; Humanities, art, music > Education > Secondary school levels I and II