Perceptions Of Guardians On Use Of English At Home

Abstract

This research work entitled the''Perceptions of Guardians on Use of English at Home" has been carried out to identify the perceptions of guardians on the uses of English by their children at home. This survey research and non-random judgmental sampling procedure were used to select the 40 guardians as respondents whose children were studying English as a major subject in higher level study in Gaighat of Udayapur district. The main aim of the study was to seek out the perceptions of guardians on the uses of English.Questionnaires containing both the close ended and open ended questions were used as the tool for the data collection.It was found that most of the guardians have positive attitude and perception toward uses of English and to encourage to their children to learn English with taking English as a major subject at higher level. The thesis has been organized into five chapters. Chapter one includes the background of the study, statement of the problem, objectives of the study, research questions, significance of the study, delimitation of the study, and operational definition of the key terms. Chapter two deals with the review of theoretical literature, review of related empirical literature,implication of the review and conceptual framework.Chapter three deals with methods and procedure of the study, design of the study, population sample and sampling strategy, study area, data collection tools and techniques, data collection procedures, data analysis, and interpretation procedures, Chapter four deals with analysis and interpretation of the result and summary of finding and Chapter five deals with the conclusion and Recommendation are made on policy makers or related, practice related and further research related area of the application. The appendices and references are placed at last of this thesis.