Factors Affecting Language Performance in Literacy and Numeracy Drive Test at Grade 3

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to find out the factors that affecting language performance in literacy and numeracy drive test at Grade 3 in public schools of district Lahore and Sheikhupura. Two objectives were made for this research as their aim was to evaluate the performance of Grade 3 students in LND test and to find out the teachers’ views about factors affecting language performance in LND test. The survey research method was used for this study. The sample of the study consisted on 317 LND students of 4 schools and 225 LND teachers of 75 schools which were obtained through simple random sampling. Three LND teachers from each school were purposely selected. Data collection was done by using a standardized LND test and a closed ended questionnaire based on the factors developed by the researchers themself. Quantitative analysis was used to analyse the data while using descriptive statistics (mean and standard deviation) and independent sample t-test, was used to find out the difference between genders. The results of this research indicates that there was high mean score of four language factors such as home based, basic skills, students’ role in learning language and teachers’ related factors affecting students’ language performance in LND tests. The implications of the present study is of great importance for the English school teachers as they will get a thorough insight of these factors that affects the language performance of students of grade 3.