Basic level novice English teachers' anxiety for their professional development in Nepalese context
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Department of English Education
Abstract
This research entitled Basic Level Novice English Teachers’ Anxiety for
Their Professional Development in Nepalese Context was carried out to explore the
novice teachers’ academic, pedagogical, and psychological anxieties for their
professional development, to find out their challenges and strategies to overcome
those anxieties and to suggest some pedagogical implications. To meet the objectives
of the study, I used narrative inquiry design under qualitative research approach. The
population of this study was all the novice English teachers from the basic level
teachers of Sindupalchok district. Sample consisted of six basic level English novice
teachers working in six different schools of Sindhupalchok district. Purposive nonrandom
sampling
procedure
was
used
to determine
the participants
as
the sources
of
data
for
the
study.
The
data
was
collected
through
semi-structured
interview
to draw
the
life
stories of
the novice
English
teacher.
Similarly,
the data
were
analyzed
and
interpreted
using
thematic
approach.
From
the analysis
and
interpretation
of
the
data,
it
was
found that
basic
level
novice
English
teachers
were
found
not to
be
able
to
manage
the classroom
properly
due
to the
lack
of
content
knowledge,
further
study,
insufficient
teaching
materials,
heterogenetic
classroom,
and
support from
the
school
administration.
However,
it
was
shown
that
training,
workshop,
seminar,
and
rapport
building
with colleague
as
reduces
the
way
of teacher’s
anxiety.
This thesis has five chapters. The first chapter deals with the introduction of
the study, along with the background of the study, statement of the problems,
objectives of the study, research questions, rationale of the study, delimitation of the
study and operational definitions of the key terms. The second chapter deals with the
review of theoretical literature, review of the empirical literature, implications of the
review and conceptual framework. Similarly, the third chapter deals with the method
of the study, which includes all the procedure of the research. Likewise, the fourth
chapter deals with the analysis and interpretation of the results. Finally, fifth chapter
five deals with the findings, conclusions, and recommendations. The
recommendations are presented three levels: policy level, practice level, and further
research level. At last, references and appendix are provided.