The Effect of Community Language Learning Method on Female Jordanian Tenth Grade Students Achievement

This study aimed at investigating the effect of Community Language Learning method (CLL) in teaching English grammar on tenth grade students` achievement. This study tried to answer the following two questions:1- What is the effect, if any, of the CLL in grammar upon the achievement of tenth grade students?, 2- To what extent does the effectiveness of CLL method correlate with tenth grade students` levels of linguistic competence (i.e. high, intermediate, poor)? The population of the study consisted of 104 female tenth grade in Al-Shawbak District in the academic year 2006/2007. A purposeful sample which consisted of 58 tenth grade students was distributed into experimental and control groups. To achieve the purpose of the study, a grammar test was used before and after the treatment to measure the equivalence of the two groups with regard to their level of achievement in grammar. T-test was used to find out if there was any statistically significant difference (at α=0.05) in the students` achievement. The findings of the study reported statistically significant difference between the students who were taught through using CLL and those who were taught by the traditional method of teaching in favor of CLL. The study concluded that students who studied English grammar by using CLL tended to have high linguistic competence when compared to students who studied English grammar by using the traditional method. The researchers recommended that curriculum planners and teachers of English adapt the CLL for teaching English language grammar.