Classroom dynamics for teaching speaking skill

Abstract

The present study entitled Classroom Dynamics for Teaching Speaking Skill has been carried out. The main objectives of the study were to find out strategies employed in teaching speaking by teachers of institutional schools and compare those strategies with that of community school teachers. In order to do so, the researcher collected the data from ten lower secondary teachers of Jhapa district. The sample population consists of five teachers of community schools and five teachers of institutional schools which were selected by using non-random sampling procedure and forty classes of both community and institutional school teachers were observed. Questionnaire and class observation check list were the main tools for the data collection. The researcher found that institutional school teachers conducted precommunicative, controlled communicative, free communicative and real life

situational activities for teaching speaking. The comparison showed that

majority of the community and institutional school teachers conducted similar

kinds of activities in their presentation.

The thesis made up of five chapters. The first chapter is Introduction and consists of General Background, Statement of the Problem, Objectives of the Study, Significance of the Study, Limitations of the Study and Operational Definitions of the Key Terms. The second chapter is the Review of Related Literature and Theoretical Framework. Review of the Theoretical and Empirical Literature, Implication of the Review of the Study and Theoretical Framework are discussed in this chapter. The third chapter is about the Methodology and describes about the Design of the Study, Population and Sample, Sampling Procedure, Sources of Data, Tools for Data Collection, Process of Data Collection and Analysis and Interpretation of Data. The fourth chapter is Analysis and Interpretation. The data collected are presented, analyzed and interpreted in this chapter. The fifth chapter is about the Summary, Conclusion and Implications of the study.