Practices of Student-Centred Techniques By Secondary and Higher secondary Level English Teachers

Abstract

This research study entitled “Practices of Student-Centred Techniques by Secondary and Higher secondary Level English Teachers” was carried out to find out the practices of student-centred techniques in teaching English at secondary and higher secondary level. For collecting the data,forty-five English language teachers(15 from private secondary schools,15 from government-aided schools,15 from higher secondary schools)of Baglung district were taken as a sample using non-random sampling procedure. The study was survey research design. The tool for data collection was a set of questionnaire. The data were analyzed and interpreted both quantitatively and qualitatively. The main finding of the study is that secondary and higher secondary level English teachers have practised student-centred techniques in their classrooms. However,in the case of teaching poems, it is also found that they have used ‘explanation’ technique which comes under teacher-centred technique. This research comprised five chapters. The first chapter deals with general background of the study,statement of the problem, objectives of the study, research questions, significance of the study and operational definitions of the key terms. Likewise, the second chapter describes about teaching and learning,teaching techniques (Teacher-centred techniques and Student-centred techniques), various roles of English language teachers, teacher accounts of students-centred approaches,features of student-centred learning, paradigm shifted: focus on the student, student-centred teachingunder ‘Review of relatedtheoretical literature’. In addition, this chapter comprises review of related empirical literature, implication of the review for the study and conceptual frame work.Similarly, the third chapter covers all the areas of methodology dealing with the design of the study, population of the study, sampling procedure, data collection tool, data collection procedure and data analysis and interpretation procedure. In the same way, the fourth chapter focuses on results and discussion, analysis and interpretation of the data. The fifth chapter deals with the summary and implications followed by references and appendices.