Teachers’ Awareness and Practices of using Language Corner at Early Childhood Education Level
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https://doi.org/10.55737/tk/v5i1.51156Keywords:
Language Corner, Early Childhood Education, Mixed-method Research, Teacher’s AwarenessAbstract
This study aimed to assess the awareness and practices of teachers for using language corner in early childhood education level. Concurrent Parallel Mixed- methods research design was used for this study. The study was descriptive in nature. The population of the study was 357 ECE trained teachers of public sector of Tehsil Rawalpindi. The sample of the study was consisting of 185 (51%) ECE teachers. The research tools for this study were questionnaire, checklist of resources kit. The questionnaire comprised of 25 close- ended statements and 5 open-ended questions. For the responses of close- ended statements, 5-point Likert scale was developed. A checklist was prepared to check the utilization of resources kit, for practices open-ended questions were asked. For the reliability of the tools, pilot testing was conducted. The data were analyzed through SPSS package version 21. Mean, standard deviation, percentage and frequencies in descriptive statistics and Mann-Whitney U test in inferential statistics, were used. From the results, it was found that teachers are aware of the resources of the language corner and they are practicing it. It is suggested that teachers need extra training for the resources that they are not using in corners. The issues like lack of teachers, lack of required resources in language and mathematics corner should be resolved.
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