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Item Challenges Faced by English Teachers in Teaching Speaking(Faculty of English Education, 2018) Dhakal, ArunaThis thesis entitled Challenges Faced by English Teachers in Teaching Speaking is an attempt to find out the main challenges in teaching speaking to the secondary level students. It also aimed at finding out the ways to address those challenges. To achieve these objectives different sources of data were used. A total of thirty secondary level teachers of English from thirty community schools of Tanahun district were taken as the sample following purposive sampling procedure. The major tool for collecting data was questionnaire. The teachers were asked to fill the questionnaire and to return as soon as possible. Analysis was made in terms of challenges related to teachers,students, techniques, provision, rural setting and challenges caused by recent disasters. It was found that the main challenges in teaching speaking were English teachers’ inadequate command over spoken English, low job satisfaction, insufficient time for teaching speaking, exam oriented learning,low student participation and physically damaged school. The thesis has been divided into five chapters. The first chapter consists of the general background, statement of the problem, research questions, objectives of the study, significance of the study, delimitations of the study and operational definitions of the key terms. The second chapter deals with the literature review. The third chapter contains method and procedure of the study. The fourth chapter deals with result analysis and interpretation of data collected.Chapter Five incorporates conclusion of the study and recommendations.Item Effectiveness of Story Telling Technique for Developing Speaking Skill of the Ninth Graders(Department of English Education, 2016) Shrestha, KalpanaThe present thesis entitled 'Effectiveness of Storytelling Technique in Developing Speaking Skill of the Ninth Graders' aims at finding out effectiveness of telling different stories such as fable, fairy tale, folk tale, personal story, religious story, traditional story and so on as a teaching material in developing speaking comprehension. The researcher herself was involved in the experimental teaching for the purpose of carrying out the research. The test items were developed for the collection of data. The researcher collected data form the sampled population of sixty students of grade nine of a government-aided school. The total students were given a pre-test in order to test their speaking ability. On the basis of the pre- test result, the students were divided into two groups based on odd and even ranking of their individual scores. Both the groups were taught for about a month keeping in different class. Apart from the textbook Group A was taught with different stories whereas Group B was taught the materials from the textbook of grade IX. Then the result of the two groups were compared to find out the effectiveness of storytelling technique in teaching speaking comprehension. It was found that different stories as a teaching material has relatively a better impact in teaching speaking comprehension. The present thesis has been divided into five chapters. Chapter one is an introduction to the research. It includes the general background, statements of the problems, objectives of the study, research question, and significance of the study, delimitation of the study and operational definition of the key terms. Chapter two includes the review of theoretical literature, review of empirical literature, implication of the related review and conceptual framework. Chapter three includes the methodology adopted to carry out the research. In other words, it includes design of the study, population and sample, sampling procedure, data collection tools, data collection procedures. Chapter four consists of an analysis and interpretation of the data and summary of the findings. Chapter five consists of the conclusion of the study and recommendation for further research.