STUDENTS ATTITUDE IN ENGLISH AND VERNACULAR MEDIUM IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS

Abstract

As an Associate Professor of Psychology in a well known institution has interesting observation that students coming from the schools of vernacular language experiences psychological disturbance ad find themselves difficult to get adjusted to English medium college. Further it is also noted that a student coming from vernacular language feels shy, nervous, less well mannered, underachievers, and gets easily distracted which in turn gets affected on their overall personality characteristics. Whereas students coming from English medium schools, is well behaved, disciplined, bold and gets adjusted very well with over all atmosphere of the institution as a part of life. This observation awakened the interest and focused on students attitude related to the English and vernacular language as a medium of instruction in secondary  school Here investigation centers around the medium of instruction in school affects the attitude of the students studying in it.In all 360 students participated in the study. Out of which 180 students were from English medium and 180 students were from Vernacular medium which was chosen sample. The questionnaire-cum-attitude scale was used to collect the quantitative data and an informal interview was used to collect qualitative data. Results show that there was significant difference between the attitudes of students from both medium schools.