The subjects of this study comprise 310 female Pre
University (RMUTI) students from a whole female
governmental school in Mysore, India (an ESL based
environment). Kannada, the mother tongue of the State
of Karnataka, was the medium of instruction in that
selected school. The participants have been exposed to
English for 7 year (from 5th standard) and their age range
was from 16 to 18. The students were selected through
multi-stage random sampling and they were randomly
assigned to control and experimental groups. Finally, 140
students served as control group and 170 students as
experimental group.