Strategies Adopted by Secondary Level Teachers to Enhance Reading Comprehension

Abstract

Strategies for teaching reading comprehension is very essential for making students clear in their learning process. Strategies are considered to be an important part for the teacher to tech any skills for the students. So in relation to the strategies for reading process,the present study entitled"Strategies Adopted by Secondary Level Teachers to Enhance Reading Comprehension"was carried out with the aim to find out the problems faced by the secondary level teachers for teaching reading comprehension. In order to fulfill the objectives of the study, 30 secondary level English teachers were selected from 15 schools of Kathmandu valley through random sampling procedure. A set of questionnaire and a set of observation checklist were prepared for the observation.Through the study it was found that maximum teachers familiarize the students with the help of post questions of the text. They also made the maximum use of objective questions to find out the main idea of the text and summarize the text after teaching.It was also found that the teachers motivated the students towards reading the text before teaching. The teachers also facilitated the students with the strategies of reading comprehension and thanked the students to teach them the way of ending the communicative class. This thesis is organized in five chapters. The first chapter deals with general background, statement of the problem, main objectives of the study, its research questions,importance of reading, delimitations of the study and operational definition of the key terms. The second chapter is concerned with the review of related theoretical literature, importance of English language teaching and learning, various skills of language teaching, types of reading and its stages, review of related empirical literature, its implications and the conceptual framework. The third chapter deals with the methodology used in the study, under which sources of data, sampling procedure,tools for data collection, process of data collection and limitations of the study are described. The fourth chapter deals with analysis and interpretation of data. This chapter consists of two sub sections. The first sub-section deals with the analysis of questionnaire to the teachers and second sub-section deals with the analysis of observation checklist. The final chapter deals with the major findings and recommendations of the study.