Abstract
The present study aimed to assess the level of life skills in high school adolescents and investigate the impact of the medium of instruction on life skills. The objective of the present study was to compare the life skills of high school adolescents in the medium of instruction, namely Tamil and English Chennai, Tamil Nadu. The sample comprised 380 high school adolescents studying in class 8, in the age group 13-14 years from Schools in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. It was hypothesized that the students in the mother tongue medium (Tamil) and those who studied in English medium do not differ significantly on the measure of life skills. To measure life skills, Life skills Assessment scale with 100 items was used. It was found that most of the adolescents had average life skills, very few had high life skills, and some had low life skills, thus indicating the need for including life skills training program as a part of the curriculum. The results from the t-test showed a significant difference in life skills of high school adolescents with the medium of instruction, and the adolescents in Tamil Medium had comparatively better life skills than their English counterparts.
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