Teacher Beliefs on Using Cassette Player in Teaching Listening Skill
Date
2012
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Faculty of English Education
Abstract
This research work entitled “Teacher Beliefs on Using Cassette Player in
Teaching Listening Skill” aimed to explore the teachers’ beliefs on the use of
cassette player in teaching listening skill and to find out the problems faced by
them while using it. For this, two sets of questionnaires both close ended and
open ended were used to elicit the primary data. Forty English language
teachers of twenty different schools (both community based and private), who
used cassette player as a teaching tool were selected using purposive nonrandom sampling procedure. They were requested to respond to those
questionnaires. The data obtained from them was analyzed and interoperated
descriptively using simple statistical tools. The findings show that the teachers
who used cassette player as a teaching tool in teaching listening skill has
positive beliefs and suggest others to make appropriate environment for its
regular use. This study also shows that lack of skill in using cassette player,
crowded classroom, and no alternative power support are the major problems
faced by them.
This work comprises of four chapters. The first chapter presents the general
background, teacher beliefs, sources of teacher beliefs, teacher development
through teacher beliefs, categories of teacher beliefs, teacher beliefs and
students’ learning, teaching language skills and short introduction of teaching
aids. Furthermore, it deals with review of the related literature, its objectives
and significance of the study. Chapter second is about the methodology
adopted for the study under which sources of data, sampling procedure tools
for data collection, process of data collection and limitations of the study are
presented. Third chapter deals with the analysis and interpretation of the data.
In this section both statistical as well as descriptive approaches have been used.
The research findings and recommendation are presented in chapter four which
is followed by references and appendices.
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Teaching Listening Skill, Cassette Player, Teacher Beliefs