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question department) from an Arts and Science
Women’s College, Tamil Nadu. The
The Respondents
respondents were selected based on
The respondents for this study were their interest in learning the English
second year undergraduate students language. The demographic data of 60
from the departments of Economics respondents has been presented in
and History (30 students from each Table 2.
Table 2: Demographic data of respondents
Variable Variable F Variable
Gender Female 60 100
Age 18-20 60 100
Educational level Under graduate II year 60 100
Duration of learning English as a 10-12 years 60 100
subject
Engaged in Whatsapp for Yes 0 0
learning purpose No 60 100
Techno-knowledge in using Medium 60 100
Whatsapp High 0 0
Frequency of using mobile Rarely 0 0
phone Sometimes 5 5
often 55 95
Instruments the Whatsapp group and instructed the
participants to write about themselves.
Pre-test framework, performance of
tasks and post–test framework were Time was set and within the stipulated
used to evaluate the research question time the participants handed over the
and for the statistical calculations, SPSS paper to the researcher.
software Version 17 was used. Oral test was conducted to test the
speaking skill of the participants. This
The pre-test framework
test was conducted to evaluate the
Pre-test was conducted to understand participants’ attitude, confidence,
the existing knowledge of the choice of words and grammatical
participants in English as a language. usage. For the oral test, 15 pictures (all
Two tests were conducted – paper based the pictures were numbered from 1 to
test and oral test. Paper based test was 15) were sent to the Whatsapp group
conducted to evaluate the grammatical for the participants to narrate and the
aspects, use of vocabulary, and participants were asked to select the
sentence formation of the participants. picture by its number. Four participants
The topic ‘self-introduction’ was sent to
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