Exploring Strategies Employed By the Teachers in Teaching Poetry at the Secondary Level

Abstract

This study entitled Exploring Strategies Employed by the Teachers in Teaching Poetry at the Secondary Level attempts to explore the strategies employed in teaching poetry by secondary-level English teachers in their classrooms and to suggest some pedagogical implications for improving teaching/ learning poetry in the classroom. Regarding methodology, I adopted action research by analyzing its importance in the field of education, as a teacher-researcher, practical action research plays a vital role in searching out the best ways of teaching and implementing practically in the classroom setting. The population of this study was the secondary level students of grades 9 and 10 from the Community School of Palpa district. So, only one class; grade 10 having 27 students was selected for sample teaching poetry through purposive sampling procedures. The main tool of data collection for this study was classroom teaching and observation using primary sources of data collection. As per the need, I kept test items, diary writing, and focus group discussions among students. The study has revealed that students were more attracted to learning the matters joyfully using recitation, presenting the background of the poem, and poet the techniques used by teachers in teaching poetry. Additionally, the majority of students understood poetry through interaction using feeling and emotion in a contextual setting was relatively more effective than the conventional way of teaching poetry that I felt as the teacher researcher. This study consists of five chapters. The first chapter deals with the introduction of the study consists of the background of the study, statement of the problems, objectives of the study, research questions, significance of the study, delimitations of the study, and the operational definition of the key terms. Similarly, the second Chapter consists of a review of theoretical and empirical literature, implications of the review, and conceptual framework. Likewise, Chapter Three is concerned with the methods and procedures of the study which contains the design and methods of the study, population, sample and sampling strategies, research tools, sources of data, data collection procedures, data analysis, and ethical considerations. Then the fourth Chapter entails with analysis and interpretation of data. Finally, the findings, conclusions, and recommendations of the study come under Chapter Five followed by references and appendices.