Impact of Hypermedia-based Learning of William Wordsworth’s Poetries on Descriptive Adjective Development: A Study based on the ‘Professional English Course’

Abstract

Hypermedia-based William Wordsworth’s poetry learning; mentions to enable poetries by William Wordsworth containing graphs, images, animation, sound and hypertext with productive learning strategies displays a dominant quantity in the achievement of the students learning English as a second language. This study was handled to identify the productivity of hypermedia-based teaching in the descriptive adjective development tracked in the Professional English (PE) with true-life learning styles: activities and arrangements in recitation with video-based sound method. The term descriptive adjective denotes to a word that modifies or describes a noun or pronoun and expounds the qualities of someone or something freely or in comparison to something else. The study was led with members of PE course at the Sri Lanka Youth Vocational Training Centre of National Youth Services Council. Ninety students from PE – class - A were tied up as an experimental group and equivalent numbers of students from class - B were involved as the controlled group. A pre-test was led for both the groups to discover the prior expertise level of descriptive adjectives of the students and the mean differences were found to be negligible for both the groups from the pre-test. Later, the experimental group used hypermedia-based learning based on selected learning strategies for six months with ninety hours learning while the controlled group was taught without the use of hypermedia-based William Wordsworth’s poetry learning. After six months a post-test was conducted for both the groups. When the post-test was conducted the mean (-0.099) was to some extent enriched for the group - B than the pre-test, and the mean (-2.979) was significantly improved for the group - A in the post-test. Therefore, it is found that there is a positive relationship between the hyper-media based learning and the performance in descriptive adjective development. The research results show that hyper-media based William Wordsworth’s poetry learning expands descriptive adjective development of the learners of English as a second language.