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The post-test framework                 researcher  used the same storyboard.
                                                This test was conducted  in  person
        In  this  post-test, the researcher
        examined the development of the         similar to that of the pre-test. All the 15
        participants’ speaking  skill in English.   stories were simple and known stories
        As in the pre-test, the researcher used   to the participants and  the stories
        the same 15 stories and the participants   boosted their morale too.
        narrated the same story as in the pre-  The  points  examined  in  the  post-test
        test. For the  evaluation  process, the   are given in table-17.
                          Table-17: Points examined in the post-test

                       Objective                Tested items           Task

           Oral test:                        Choice of words,    Story narration
           To test the speaking skill        grammatical usage,
           To examine the presentation skill   attitude

        The  story  narration  had  these  stories:  level of using English got improved and
        The  Hare  and  the  Tortoise,  2.  The  Fox  their interest in learning English also got
        and the Stork 3. The Fox and the Grapes  enhanced satisfactorily. The assessment
                                                was  categorized  as:  weak,  satisfactory,
        Analysis of the post-test
                                                good and excellent. Table-18 shows the
        The researcher felt that the participants’   assessment components
                          Table-18: Assessment of the performance

           Assessment items             No. of respondents Percentage      Level
           Choice of vocabulary                 60              70         Good
           Confidence and attitude              60              80       Excellent
           Improvement in speaking              60              80       Excellent

        Result  analysis  of  pre-test and  post-  skills. After this phase, a post-test was
        test                                    conducted using the same storyboard.
                                                The post-test task was used to test the
        In this study, tasks were used to enhance
        the speaking skill of participants. To   speaking skill of the participants and the
        evaluate the existing  knowledge  a     scores were analyzed for correlation to
        pre-test was conducted  using  story    check  whether the  participants’ scores
        narration. 60  participants were given   were increased in the post-test result.
        6+2  tasks to improve their speaking    The result  has been  given  in  table-19,
                                                20, 21and 22.












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