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Item Challenges faced by English language teachers in teaching writing skill(Faculty of education, 2016) Shrestha, ShovaThe present research work titled "Challenges Faced by English Language Teachers in Teaching Writing Skill"is an attempt to find out the challenges faced by English language teachers in teaching writing skill and to suggest some pedagogical implication. The researcher selected forty secondary level English teachers from twenty government aided school of Sindhuli district through non-random purposive sampling procedure. The questionnaires were used as the main tools for data collection. The collected data were analyzed and interpreted with the help of tables.After the analysis and interpretation of data it was found that challenges faced by English language teachers while teaching writing skill to the students are weak in grammar, lack of English writing environment in the school, poor in spelling, grammar function, lack of developing critical thinking. This thesis consists of five chapters. The first chapter deals with the introduction of the topic in which background of the study, statement of the problem, objectives of the study, research questions, significance of the study, delimitation of the study, and operational definitions of the key terms are included. The second chapter covers the review of related theoretical literature, review of related empirical literature, implications of the review for the study and conceptual framework. The third chapter deals with the methods and procedures of the study which includes design of the study,population, sample and sampling strategies, data collection tools and techniques, data collection procedure and data analysis and interpretation procedure. Likewise, the fourth chapter presents the analysis and interpretation of results. It also includes analysis of data, interpretation of results and summary of the findings. Fifth chapter deals with conclusions and recommendations followed by references and appendices. The recommendation is subsumed under policy related, practice related and further research related respectively.Item Effectiveness of Free Writing Strategy in Teaching Writing(Faculty of English Education, 2013) Rana, Hum BahadurThis research study attempts to find out the effectiveness of free writing strategy in teaching writing. To accomplish this task, all the students of grade 12 of Dewarali Higher Secondary School, Syangja, were selected for the collection of data. In order to achieve the objective, a test item was developed as a tool for data collection. Thirty students of grade twelve were purposively selected as the sample of the study. A pre-test was administered before starting teaching to determine their efficiency at entry point. After dividing students into two groups (as per odd-even ranking), experimental group was taught with due focus on free writing strategy. After four weeks, a post-test was administered to determine the students’ free writing proficiency. Then the results of both pre-test and post-test were compared and analyzed in order to find out the effectiveness of free writing strategy in teaching writing. This thesis mainly includes four chapters. The first chapter provides the introduction of the study. The introduction consists of general background,review of the related literature, objectives and significance of the study. The second chapter presents the methodology that includes the sources of data,population of the study, tools for data collection and limitations of the study.The third chapter deals with the analysis and interpretation of the data. The data have been studied and analyzed in terms of holistic analysis, group wise analysis and item wise analysis. Further an achievement analysis in pre-test,post-test and analysis of marks in terms of central tendencies as well as T-value have been carried out to make the analysis more significant. Similarly, the fourth chapter includes the summary of the findings and recommendations based on the analysis and interpretation of this study. Finally, the references and the appendices which are necessary for the validation of the research are also presented.Item Tasks for Teaching Writing at Secondary Level(Department of English Education, 2017) Aryal, PratimaThis thesis entitled "Tasks for Teaching Writing at Secondary Level" is an attempt to find out the tasks used by secondary level English teachers in teaching writing at secondary level and to examine the most preferred tasks for teaching writing in EFL context. Both primary and secondary sources of data were used to collect data. The data were collected by administrating the questionnaire to 25 teachers of secondary level schools of Kathmandu and Lalitpur districts. Two sets of questionnaires (close-ended and open-ended) were employed to collect data. The sample of the study was selected through purposive non-random sampling procedure. The data were analysed and interpreted in order to find out tasks for teaching writing. A survey was conducted to achieve the objectives of the study. The major findings of the study show that teachers preferred controlled writing tasks to teach sentence structures, grammar rules, vocabularies and word-meaning. They preferred guided writing tasks to develop learners’ ability and to expand their ideas. Similarly, they preferred free writing tasks to innovate new ideas and develop creativity skills in learners. In the similar way, free writing tasks were found as the most preferred tasks. The teachers suggested that teachers should use pictures, audios and videos, and they should also provide exposures of reading materials to develop writing skills in learners. It is recommended that teachers should provide exposures related to real life context and they should conduct real life writing skill development tasks. This thesis consists of five chapters. The first chapter is introduction which consists of background of the study, statement of the problem, objectives of the study, research questions, and significance of the study, delimitations of the study and operational definition of the key terms. The second chapter includes review of related and conceptual framework that consists of review of theoretical literature, review of empirical literature, implication of the review of the study and conceptual framework. Similarly, the third chapter deals with methods and procedures of the study which covers design and method of the study, population, sample and sampling strategy, research tools and techniques, sources of data, data collection procedure, data analysis procedure and ethical consideration. Likewise, the fourth chapter includes the analysis and interpretation of the results. Furthermore, chapter five includes findings, conclusions and recommendations. Finally, the references and the appendices, which are necessary for the validation of the research, are included.Item Teachers’ perception on student centered techniques in teaching writing(Department of English Educaion, 2017) Chapagain, SheshkantaThis study entitled "Teachers' Perception on Student-Centered Techniques in Teaching Writing" aimed to find out the teacher's perception on student-centered techniques in teaching writing in the secondary level schools. Similarly, the other purpose was to analyze the techniques used to teaching writing and suggest some pedagogical implications. For this, the researcher selected forty different teachers of different schools of Syangja district by using judgmental sampling procedure and forty students of these schools by using random sampling procedure. The observation checklist and survey questionnaire were employed as research tools for data collection. The collected data were analyzed and interpreted by using percentage. From the study, it was found that writing exercises such as pre-writing exercises e.g. introduction to superscription, salutation, opening, body, ending and subscription in writing letters, free-writing exercises e.g. essay writing, and letter of application to the class teacher were used by the majority of the teachers. Similarly, Harmer's techniques such as ‘what are they doing’, fill in the blanks, parallel writing, description of persons, and dictation techniques were used fairly. Contrary to this, use of visual materials and communicative activities were poor and picture flower technique was rarely used. This thesis comprises five chapters. The first chapter deals with the introduction of topic in which general background of the study, statement of the problem, objectives of the study, research question, significance of the study, delimitations of the study and operational key terms are included. The second chapter deals with the review of both theoretical and empirical literature along with the implication of the review for the study. It also includes conceptual framework. The third chapter is concerned with method and procedures of the study. It includes design and method of the study, population, sample and sampling strategy, study area, data collection tools and techniques, data collection procedures and data analysis and interpretation procedures. The fourth chapter includes the interpretation and analysis of result along with summary of findings. Conclusions and recommendations are given in the fifth chapter. Moreover, it suggests some pedagogical implications for policy level, practice level and further study. This chapter is followed by references and appendices used for the study