Proficiency Test of High School English Learners: A Case Study in Nayagarh Town

Abstract

An attempt has been made to evaluate the learn ability of English as a second language in two different kinds of instructions such as Oriya and English medium in high school stage. Information has been collected from the both Oriya and English medium schools. Some observations and generalizations made in order to arrive at conclusions. The result of the present paper says that, the students with better socio-economic back-grounds reveal better proficiency than that of the learners with low socio-economic background. To add to it, learners with good socio-economic back-ground get better exposure to the target language (i.e., English). However of learners of English medium schools have better proficiency than that of learners of Oriya medium schools.