Teachers' Views on the Use of Authentic Materials in Teaching English
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2012
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Faculty of Education Tribhuvan University, Kirtipur Kathmandu, Nepal
Abstract
This thesis entitled "Teachers' Views on the Use of Authentic Materials in
teaching English" is an attempt to identify and analyze the use of authentic
materials by teachers of English. For this purpose, I selected forty lower
secondary English teachers from twenty different private schools of Saptari
district by using non-random sampling procedure. I used questionnaire as my
research tool to elicit data from the respondents. They were provided with
questionnaire and asked to complete it by providing relevant information. It
was found that the teachers of lower secondary level from private schools were
exponentially positive towards the use of authentic materials in the language
classroom. They also responded that newspaper could be easily available and
feasible materials for the language class.
This thesis encompasses four chapters. The first chapter presents the general
background, review of related literature, objectives and significance of the
study, general background, in turn, includes linguistic scenario of Nepal,
language teaching and learning, authentic materials. The second chapter
consists of the methodology of the study. It includes the sources of study,
population of the study, sampling procedure, tools for data collection and
limitations of the study. Similarly, the third chapter deals with analysis and
interpretation of the data. The fourth chapter incorporates the major findings
and recommendations of the study. The references and appendices form the
concluding part of the thesis.
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Teaching materials, Education english, English teaching