Teachers' Perception towards Communicative Activities Given in 'Meanings into Words

Abstract

This research work entitled 'Teachers' Perception towards Communicative Activities Given in Meanings into Words' is an attempt to find out teachers ' perception towards the use of the communicative activities given in 'Meanings into Words' of grade 12. For this purpose the researcher collected data from teachers of different higher secondary schools of Kathmandu district by distributing a set of questionnaire. It is quantitative inquiry, based on descriptive and quantitative analysis of the data. The total numbers of the teachers were 40. The data collected from the respondents were analysed and interpreted to explore their perceptions towards the communicative activities given in 'Meanings into Words' of grade 12. On the basis of the collected data it was found that the teachers were familiar with the communicative activities given in the 'Meanings into Words' of grade 12. Similarly, the teachers also opined that teacher trainings were necessary for the implementation of the communicative activities in the classroom. They also viewed that different factors like large classes, untrained teachers, mismatch between curriculum and testing, limited and irrelevant materials were the other factors that affect the use of communicative activities in the classroom. This study consists of four chapters. The first chapter provides theoretical input for strategies used in teaching language communicatively, review of related literature, objectives of the study, significance of the study and objectives. Similarly, the second chapter deals with the research methodology adopted for the study in which the sources of data, sampling procedures, tools for data collection, processes of data collection and limitations of the study are included. Likewise, the third chapter deals with quantitive analysis of the collected data. These are based on questionnaire for teachers. The fourth chapter deals with the research findings and recommendations based on the analysis and interpretation of the gathered data. This chapter is followed by references and appendices.