Research Design
Before the actual start of the study, formal consent of the students was
sought. 100 students took pretest and the result of pre-test marks
enabled the researcher to select twenty students from rural and twenty
from urban site. On the very first day of commencement of classes, every
student was provided with a short story and it was read aloud in the
class room. Students were asked to underline unfamiliar words while
reading and they were explained these difficult words with the help of
TPR (total physical response) along with contextual clues, key word
method. One week was spent on each story. Short stories were available
in the class room for students. Their availability in the classroom
facilitated the students for self study. The rest of the four short
stories were taught to both rural and urban group students through the
same methodology as explained above. At the end of the whole
intervention, all the students appeared in a very formal post-test
session at their respective sites.