Effectiveness of Informational Communication Technology Instructional Package (ICTIP) on English Language Learning among Secondary School Students: An intervention study during Covid-19

Abstract

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is dominating the world in general and equally imparting the best of the resources in quality education, hence, 21stcentury is considered an era of ICT in education (Mayer, 2014). This present unprecedented Covid-19 pandemic created a wide range of gaps in physical classroom practices in most of the world and it is also evident that the whole world solely depends on the best ICT resources for instruction to support the teaching-learning process for which an experimental study administered to evaluate the relative effect of Informational Communication Technology Instructional Package (ICTIP) in teaching the English Language. The sampling of the study consists of 61 students of the 10th class aged 15 to 17 years from Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya students of the Pondicherry region. The ICTIP consists of various instructional interventions on content and pedagogical inputs to improve the academic performance in English Language learning between the control and experimental group before and after intervention respectively. The mean scores of the experimental group were found statistically significant when compared to that of the control group after the intervention of English language skills and invariably increased the mean scores of listening, speaking, reading and writing skills. Hence, this study reveals that ICT instructional package is effective and shall always bring desirable changes in any content teaching especially during this COVID pandemic which helps teachers to