Interactive Instructional Strategy and its Impact on Pupils’ with Dyslexia in Kumba III Sub Division, Meme Division of the South West Region of Cameroon

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This study was aimed at finding out the impact of interactive instructional strategy on pupils’ with dyslexia in primary schools in Kumba III Sub Division, Meme Division of the South West Region of Cameroon. Two specific objectives formulated for the study include: to compare the mean reading skills scores of pupils with dyslexia taught with interactive instructional strategy and direct instruction, to compare the mean reading skills scores of male and female pupils with dyslexia when taught using interactive instructional strategy. The study adopted quasi non-equivalent experimental design. The population of the study was made up of all pupils with dyslexia in Meme Division in public, private and lay private primary schools. The sample size 80 pupils with dyslexia drawn from 10 primary schools. The sample was shared into two groups of 18 males and 22 females in the interactive instruction group and 21 males and 19 females in the direct instruction group. The research instrument use for data collection was an English comprehension achievement test (ECAT) to measure the pupils with dyslexia’s mean achievement scores. The instrument was validated by experts. Method of data analysis was done using descriptive and inferential statistical tools. Variables were scaled and described using measures of central tendencies (Mean) and dispersion (Standard Error of Mean and Standard Deviation). The findings of the study revealed that interactive instructional strategy enhances reading skills of pupils with dyslexia better than the direct instruction. Secondly, the findings revealed that interactive instructional strategy has the same effect on male and female pupils. Based on the findings of this study it was recommended that primary school teachers should use interactive instructional strategy in the teaching of reading comprehension to pupils with dyslexia in primary schools.

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