Teachers' Views on Relevance of Action Research for Their Professional Development

Abstract

This research study entitled Teachers' Views on Relevance of Action Research for Their Professional Development was carried out to identify the views of teachers on relevance of action research for their professional development, analyze the experiences of using Action Research by English language teachers and to suggest some pedagogical implication.Keeping these objectives in to consideration,both primary and secondary sources of data were used.The questionnaires were used for the collection of data containing close-ended and open ended questions. The data were collected from the secondary level(9-10) English teachers teaching in both public and private schools of Kailali District. The schools and the teachers were selected by using non-random sampling procedure.Sixty (60) teachers from the selected schools were the sample of this research.The collected data were analyzed by using tabulation and their description.After the analysis and interpretation of the data,it was found that the majority of the teachers who were teaching English did not have enough knowledge of action research in the first year of the teaching career but majority of them practiced action research in their English language teaching classroom later in their career. Similarly, most of the teachers were found practicing action research in teaching learning of aspects of grammar. This thesis is divided into five chapters. The first chapter includes background of the research, statement of the problem, objectives of the study,research questions, significant of the study, operational definition of the key terms. Similarly, the second chapter is related to the review of the oretical literature, review of empirical literature, implications of the review and conceptual framework. Likewise, third chapter deals with methods and procedures of the study under which design of the study, population sample,sampling procedure, data collection tools, data collection procedures, analysis and interpretation procedure, ethical considerations are mentioned. In the same way, the fourth chapter consists of results and discussion of the study. Finally viii the fifth chapter includes the findings,conclusion and recommendations.Recommendation of the study at policy related, practice related and further research related are suggested