Abstract:
Hypermedia-based Ranasinghe’s poetry refers to facilitate poems with graphs,
images, animation, sound and hypertext with tactics exhibits the success of
the students. This study was steered to recognize the output of hypermedia in
the adjective development followed in the Certificate in Professional English
(CPE) with factual learning styles: activities and arrangements in recitation
with video and audio-based method. The term adjective refers to a word
that modifies or describes a noun or pronoun and explains the qualities of
someone or something independently or in comparison to something else.
The study was conducted with participants of CPE course at the Sri Lanka
Youth Vocational Training Centre of National Youth Services Council. Ninety
students from CPE – class - A were engaged as an experimental group and
equal numbers of students from class - B were engaged as the controlled group.
A pre-test was led for both the groups to find out the previous proficiency
level of adjectives of the students and the mean differences were found to be
negligible for both the groups from the pre-test. Later, the experimental group
used hypermedia-based learning based on selected learning strategies for
six months with ninety hours learning while the controlled group was taught
without the use of hypermedia-based Anne Ranasinghe’s poetry learning.
After six months a post-test was conducted for both the groups. When the
post-test was conducted the mean (-0.091) was slightly improved for the
group - B than the pre-test, and the mean (-2.971) was significantly improved
for the group - A in the post-test. Thus, it is found that there is a positive
relationship between the hyper-media based learning and the performance
in adjective development. The research findings indicate that hyper-media
based Anne Ranasinghe’s poetry learning improves adjective development
of the learners of ESL.
