READING FLUENCY COMPETENCE OF ENGLISH SPECIFIED AND NON-ENGLISH SPECIFIED TEACHERS: A COMPARATIVE STUDY

Abstract

The main purpose of the study was, “reading fluency competence of English specified and nonEnglish specified teachers; a comparative study” The main research question was, “What was the reading fluency competence of English specified teachers” This Study to explore the competencies of
Elementary Teachers in Reading Fluency was of Survey type. All elementary teachers of four categories i.e. PSTs, ESEs, ESTs and SESEs of Punjab who teach English to elementary level respectively was the population for this survey type study. Sampling was done from two Districts i.e. Bhakkar and Gujranwala. For sampling purpose stratified random sampling method was used. The sample shaped as following. Total sample of elementary teachers was 200, among those 100 teachers were taken from each district. 25 teachers of each category were taken containing 13 female and 12 male teachers of each category. The DVIP consisted of 14 points i.e., qualification (academic and professional), designation, age, length of service, gender, locale, posting place, subject which they like to teach, subject they have to teach, residence, trainings and literary taste etc. the data collected through DVIP was further used for analysis. For validation of Research Instrument expert opinion was taken from Subject Matter Experts. It was made sure that both seen and unseen paragraph was of equal difficulty and according to level/ standard of Grade 4th and 7th. So the present study concluded that English subject specified teachers at Elementary level performed better in all three factors of reading fluency than Non English subject specified teachers.