Practices of Teaching Reading

Abstract

This research work entitled Practices of Teaching Reading is an attempt to find out teacher’s techniques of teaching reading texts and attitude of teachers towards teaching reading English in Nepalese contexts. This is both quantitative and qualitative inquiry, based on multi method approach, descriptive and narrative analysis of data. The data were collected from 40 secondary schools of Palpa district by using questionnaire for 40 teachers. Twenty teachers were selected for the classroom observation. Classes of the 20 teacher were observed once using observation checklist. The findings of this research showed that majority of the teachers of English do not use appropriate teaching materials. Not all the teachers give equal attention using reading skill i.e. guessing meaning from context, predicting from the words and pictures, use of strategies. The teachers usually failed to engage in discussion. It was also found that the teachers partially used audio supports to minimize reading difficulties. Most of the teachers focused on objective type of question to measure the proficiency of the reading. The present study has been divided into four chapters. The first chapter consists of general background, review of related literature, objectives of the study and significance of the study. Chapter two consists of methodology of the study. It encompasses the source of data, population of the study, sampling procedure tools for data collection and limitations of the study. Chapter three consists of the analysis and interpretation of the collected data. The data were tabulated and analyzed on the basis of the test items. Chapter four consists of the major findings and recommendation made after the analysis of the data which follows references and appendices.