Effectiveness of Multisensory Approach of Teaching on English Language Reading Skills of young adult learners

Abstract

The present experimental study aimed to find out the effect of multisensory approach of teaching on English language reading skills of young adult learners. The purposive sample comprising of 40 male young adult learners of class 12 of CGBSE Hindi medium schools were randomly divided into experimental and control groups. For the teaching of experimental group, multisensory approach involving audio-visual mode along with kinesthetic modality was used. The control group was taught by conventional classroom method. English reading comprehension test was used to find out the difference before and after teaching. Post test only design was used. The statistical analysis of data was done by calculating t. The findings revealed the difference between the two groups. Experimental group outperformed the control group. Thus the results indicate that multisensory approach of teaching enhances the English reading skills.