期刊名称：International Journal of English and Education
印刷版ISSN：2278-4012
出版年度：2013
卷号：2
期号：3
出版社：Brahmaputra Publishing House
摘要：Learning of Alphabet is a basic step to learn English language. Most of our children in the country startlearning English Alphabet at the age of four years. Some of the letters are similar to each other in one wayor the other and they create a lot of confusion for the very young kids who is learning four languages at atime in most parts of our country namely Urdu, English, Arabic and a local language.This documentpresents the results of a study about the confusing letters at Nursery level in the private schools of theSialkot city.The purpose of the study was to identify letters at which students of Nursery class haveconfusion in one way or the other and provide a base to bring about subtle changes in the font style tominimize the confusion. The questionnaire was used as instruments for collection of data for the study. Thequestionnaire comprised twenty questions – 19 were close ended having a pair and teachers have to tellhow much confusion students have at 5 points Lickert scale ranging from “No”(1 score) to “Often”(5score). Last question was an open ended question asking, are there some other letters that createconfusion? The findings of the study revealed that b-d cause maximum confusion in the minds of thestudents at Nursery level. Pairs of q-p was at the second number, w-v at the third number, u-v at the fourthand n-m was at the next position in the descending order in causing confusion in the minds. All these pairsgot a score more than 50. Findings of the study also reflect that experienced teachers know more aboutconfusion and less experienced know less than those. Recommendations include bringing changes in thefont style of letters b-d, q-p, w-v, u-v, n-m so that they should look distinct and cause minimumconfusion.
