Perception of grade ten students toward english poetry

Abstract

The research study entitled Perception of Grade Ten Students towards English Poetry explores the perception of grade ten students towards English poetry in terms of interest, content and language and to find the difficulties faced by grade ten students towards English poetry. Basically, I have used mixed methods research design and followed judgmental sampling procedures to collect data. Keeping the purpose in consideration, four schools were selected and 40 students were sampled i.e., ten students from each secondary school. A set of questionnaires closed-ended and open-ended were the tools of data collection. Collected data from closed-ended were presented statistically and open-ended were thematically presented keeping in consideration of quantitative and qualitative data analysis principle. After analysis and interpretation of data collected from the respondents, it was found that highest percentage of students strongly agreed with that statement that they were able to improve their vocabulary through English poetry. Likewise, highest percentage of participants strongly disagreed with the statement that they were able to understand the hidden meaning of English poetry. Similarly, highest ratio of students disagreed that they understand writer’s language and expression from the poetry. On the other hand, difficulties felt by students while dealing with English poetry were difficulty in understanding the language of the text unfamiliar ideas, experiences, or culture in the text, not enough time to read and study the text carefully, sometimes they were feeling difficulties like semantic, pragmatic, cultural differences, syntactic problems and so on. This thesis consists of five chapters. The first chapter deals with the introduction the study which consists of background of the study, statement of the problem, objectives of the study, research questions, significance of study, delimitation of the study and operational definition of the key terms. Similarly, second chapter contains of review of theoretical as well as empirical literature and implications for the study. Moreover, it includes the conceptual framework. Likewise, the third chapter incorporates with the methods and procedures of the study, which covers design and method of the study, population, sample and sampling strategies, research tools, sources of data, data collection procedures, data analysis procedures. In the same way, the fourth chapter includes the analysis and interpretation of the data. Furthermore, the fifth chapter incorporates the findings and conclusions of the study followed by some recommendations based on the study. Finally, the references and the appendices, which are necessary to the validation of the research, have also been presented.