Challenges of Teaching English at Secondary Level

Abstract

The present thesis entitled ‘Challenges of Teaching Englishat Secondary Level’ has been carried out in order to explore the challenges of teaching English, identify the causes of them and find out measures to overcome them. Five secondary level English teachers from different five community schools of Panchakanya Rural Municipality and Shivapuri Rural Municipality of Nuwakot district were purposively selected for the study. An open-ended questionnaire was used for data collection and the collected data was analyzed and interpreted on the basis of thematic approach. It was found that the challenges of teaching English were less use of information communication technologies, mother tongue interference, students’ low performance in the use of vocabulary items, students’ diverse backgrounds, implicit approach to teaching grammar, and lack of English environments for learners. It was also found that major causes of the challenges were students’ promotion trends in schools, inhibition and low degree of motivation. It was also found that the measures of overcoming those challenges of teaching English were the collaboration, and use of technologies, strategies related to post-method pedagogy, mother tongue as required and parents’ concern in students' education. This thesis consists of five chapters. The first chapter is an introductory chapter consisting of background, statements of the problem, objectives, research questions, significance, delimitations, and key words definitions. The second chapter is review of related literature and conceptual framework consisting of thematic literature, review of theoretical literature, empirical literature, implications of them and conceptual framework of the study. Chapter three deals with the methods and procedures of study consisting of design and methods, population and sample, sampling procedures data collection tools and techniques, data collection procedures, data analysis and interpretation procedures, and ethical considerations. Similarly, chapter four is analysis and interpretation of results and fifth chapter deals with findings and discussion, conclusions and implications. Finally, the references, findings and appendices have been included in the last part of the thesis