Use of Learner-Centered Techniques by Secondary Level English Teachers
Date
2012
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Faculty of English Education
Abstract
The present study entitled Use of Learner-Centered Techniques by
Secondary Level English Teacher is an attempt to identify and find out
learner-centered techniques used in teaching language skills and aspects by
secondary level teachers of English and suggest some pedagogical
implications. In order to collect the data, the primary and secondary sources
were used. Ten teachers of English and fifty students of grade IX and X at
secondary school of Jhapa district were involved as informants in this study.
The main tools for data collection were observation check-list and interview.
The teachers were requested to permit to observe their classroom teaching and
students were interviewed. The raw data obtained from them were analyzed
and interpreted descriptively. After analysis and interpretation of the data, it
was found that teachers had used learner-centered techniques like pair work,
group work, discussions and pictures as supplementary materials.
The present study consists of four chapters. The first chapter deals with general
background, objectives and significance of the study and review of related
literature. Chapter two deals with the methodology of the study which consists
of data, the sampling procedure, the tools for data collection, process of data
collection and the limitations of the study. The third chapter includes the
analysis and interpretation of the data obtained from the field. The last, fourth
chapter has the findings and recommendations of the study in which some
pedagogical implications have been recommended to better the findings of this
study as well as to strengthen such further studies.
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Learner-centered techniques, Language skills, English Teachers