TITLE:
Learning Present Continuous Tense Made Easy through “Son, Mummy and the -ing Cat” Module
AUTHORS:
Mohamad Hafizuddin Ma’mor, Hamidah Yamat
KEYWORDS:
Module, Present Continuous Tense, Learning, Teaching Aids, Grammar
JOURNAL NAME:
Creative Education,
Vol.10 No.12,
November
29,
2019
ABSTRACT: Learning the grammar, particularly tenses of English language may be
difficult or confusing to many second or foreign language learners whose mother
tongue does not have a complex grammar system, such as Malay Language. This
raises problems in constructing grammatically correct sentences; both in spoken
and written work. Hence, there is a need to find means that would be easy and fun to help children learn the grammar
of English. This paper presents and discusses a quasi-experimental study
that aimed to test the effectiveness of an innovative module developed and
named “Son, Mummy and the -ing cat” to aid students in constructing correct present continuous sentences. It
integrates elements of storytelling, puppetry, role-play and word cards as an
in-class intervention activity. 58 Year Six (age 12) pupils experienced using
the module for 13 days and their writing performance was assessed in the
pre-and post-tests of their sentence-production. Findings of the paired samples
t-test show a difference of means between the two tests. The students
constructed more and higher instances of correct present continuous tense
sentences after the use of the module. This further implies that learning a
concept, although complex and confusing as the English grammar, can be
enhanced with creative teaching aids.