The Effectiveness of Using Pictorial story in the Achievement of Grammar and the Retention of the Learning Effect among the Eighth Grade Students

Abstract

The goal of this study is to test the effectiveness of using pictorial story in the achievement of grammar and the retention of the learning effect among eighth grade students. To achieve this goal, the researchers prepared an achievement test and a guide for grammar lessons based on pictorial story. Both tools were validated by a group of specialized adjudicators. Reliability of the test reached 0.74 using Cronbach Alpha Coefficient. The study sample was divided into two groups: an experimental group, which consisted of 27 students who were taught using pictorial stories, and a control group, which included 30 students who were taught using the usual ways. Both groups took a post achievement test and the same test was given  two weeks after the post application in order to measure the retention effect of learning. The results of the study indicated that there was a statistically significant difference at the level of significance (α = 0.5) between the mean scores of the students of the two groups in the two tests: Post-Achievement and Deferred-Achievement. This difference was in favor of the experimental group, and it was ascribed to the use of pictorial story. Based on these results, the two researchers highlighted the importance of pictorial story and recommended that it should be benefited from it and employed in teaching different disciplines of the Arabic language and its various skills, and they suggested conducting a number of studies on it.