Strategies Used by College Level English Teachers for Their Professional Development

Abstract

The present research work entitled Strategies Used by College Level English Teachers for their Professional Development aims to find out the strategies used by college level English teachers for their professional development. The study consists of primary and secondary sources of data. For the primary data, forty college level English teachers were selected from Tanahun district and colleges were selected with the use of purposive non-random sampling procedure. During the period of data collection, I distributed the questionnaire. It was found that strategies used by teachers are workshop, training, self-monitoring, teaching portfolio, action research, teacher support group, peer observation, case analysis, peer coaching, team teaching and critical incident analysis. Among them workshops and trainings are more popular and preferred by majority of English teachers in college level. The teachers viewed that strategies they adopted in their teaching career helped them to make their presentation more effective. Moreover, while using those strategies, college teachers faced multiple challenges such as class management, time management and resource management. This research work is divided into five different chapters. The first chapter deals with an introduction of the study. It consists of the background of the study, statement of the problems, objectives of the study, research questions, limitations of the study and operational definitions of key terms. Likewise, the second chapter deals with the review of theoretical as well as empirical literature. The third chapter deals with the methods and procedure of the study. It consists of research design of the study, population and sample, sampling procedure, tools for data collection and the process of data collection. Similarly, the fourth chapter displays the result and discussion of the research work. Moreover, the last chapter involves the summary, conclusion and recommendations at various levels i.e. policy level, practice level and further research. The references and appendices are mentioned at the end.