students in the class 7th B , therefore they have a higher level of knowledge.
However, the following aspects must be mentioned while analyzing the errors:
- Some students show uncertainty in identifying the right modal verb to fill in
the text, namely they either used the modal “Can” instead of ”Must” in
expressing probability in the present, or “can” instead of “Might” in expressing
possibility in the present.
For example:
E.g. He can be exhausted after such a long flight.
He must be exhausted after such a long flight. - There are students with a minimal vocabulary, who have difficulties when
they are asked to make a linguistic transfer from Romanian into English; this task
was the most difficult for them. - There are also students who have difficulties related to spelling:
However, I must say that quite a lot of students prove the ability to establish
connections and context understanding.
Activities/ types of exercises
The experiment lasted for seven weeks. During this period of time there were used
different types of activities in the two classes: the Experimental Class and the Control Class.
Where there was once consensus on the “right” way to teach foreign languages, many
teachers now share the belief that a single right way does not exist. It is certainly true that no
comparative study has consistently demonstrated the superiority of one method over another for
all teachers, all students and all settings.
There is a large variety of methods in practice today, but since our experiment focused on
two methods- the Grammar-Translation Method and the Communicative Approach I will
refer only to them. Of course, how a method is manifest in the classroom will depend heavily on
the individual teacher’s interpretation of principles.
During the teaching process, I noticed the students from both classes and recorded my
findings, which depended on several things I wanted to analyze:
- Which method of teaching was more effective, or the most;
- How many of the students from both classes will have learnt to express correctly
Necessity in English; - What are the difficulties they encountered during the learning process;
- What are the most common errors they have made while learning Modal Verbs