Abstract
This study entitled “Problems in the Construction of Sentence at HSSC Level in Pakistan” strives to unearth the problems faced by the students in learning sentence structure through literature and the facts regarding the role of literature as a teaching tool in teaching English as a second/foreign language with reference to the construction of sentence at Higher Secondary School Certificate (HSSC) level in Pakistan. This study also investigates how much the students learn English sentence structure through literature. To achieve the set objectives of this study, the researcher went for the quantitative research methodology. So, a questionnaire comprising of 30 items encompassing the different aspects of sentence structure was designed to collect data from 600 subjects (male/female) of HSSC (Higher Secondary School Certificate) level. The researcher has also conducted an achievement test so that a correlation might be drawn between their attitude towards “teaching English sentence structure through literature” and the score of their achievement test. The collected data were analyzed through software package (SPSS XX) which is commonly used in applied linguistics. The findings of this study explicitly reveal that the EFL learners remain unable to learn and develop both the contraction of sentence and syntactic skills when they are taught English through literature. This study recommends that the teaching of English should be application oriented and task-based strategies and activities should be resorted to by the FL educators.
Highlights
This study entitled “Problems in the Construction of Sentence at HSSC Level in Pakistan” strives to unearth the problems faced by the students in learning sentence structure through literature and the facts regarding the role of literature as a teaching tool in teaching English as a second/foreign language with reference to the construction of sentence at Higher Secondary School Certificate (HSSC) level in Pakistan
This study has reached the conclusion that the ESL/EFL learners face myriads of problems related to sentence construction and the literature taught to them does not render any pay-off in enhancing and honing their skill of sentence construction
One of the most important reasons behind this problem is that the ESL/EFL learners go through the literature just for the sake of scoring maximum marks in the examination and to this end they resort to the helping books and ready-made material available in the market
Summary
This means that a language does not consist of strings of words rather words group together to form phrases and phrases group together to form larger phrases and sentences This pattern of phrase within phrase is known as hierarchical structure. McArthur (1992) claims that in the recent years, some linguists have tended to abandon the vertical “layer cake” model in favor of horizontal model with a syntactic component flanked by a phonological component on one side and a semantic component on the other. Syntax has this central role because it can be regarded as the component that links sound and meaning. It can be illustrated as follows: Source: Chomsky’s Universal Grammar by Vivian Cook & Mark Newson
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