Efficacy of Medium of Instruction in Educational Setting at Elementary Level

Abstract

The present research is an effort to explore the veiled perplexity that English or Urdu which medium of instruction is better at secondary level education.To explore the impact ofmedium of instruction the researcher used experimental research design; and the population of the study was the students of government girls’ elementary schoolMalikpur of district Rahim Yar Khan. A sample size of the 60 students of 8^th class was selected by using purposive sampling. These students were divided in two equal groups named as controlled and experimental group. The each group was contained on 30 students. The controlled group was taught by using Urdu language as a medium of instruction while the experimental group was taught by using English language  as a medium of instruction. The both groups were trained two months in different medium of instructions by the same teacher.The posttest results revealed that the experimental group performed better than the controlled group; while in the pretest their score was almost same. The results exposed that English medium of instruction is better than Urdu medium of instruction. In the end researcher presented some recommendations on the basis of these findings.