Teacher-Centered Techniques: Perceptions and Practices

Abstract

The thesis entitled "Teacher-Centered Techniques: Perceptions and Practices"was an attempt to find out the teachers' perception on teacher-centered techniques in language classroom. I collected the data by distributing the questionnaire to 40 teachers of higher secondary schools of Kathmandu valley i.e. 20 respondents of private higher secondary schools and 20 of public higher secondary schools. The data were analyzed in order to identify and compare the techniques used by the teacher of higher secondary schools. The finding of this study was that most of the English teachers use student-centered techniques in language classroom. On the basis of the findings, some recommendations have been made to improve the existing pedagogical situation.There are four chapters in this study: the introduction, methodology,analysis and interpretation and findings and recommendations. The first chapter deals with the general background, review of related literature,objectives and the significance of the study. The second chapter contains the methodology which is sub-divided as the sources of data, population of the study, sampling procedure, tools for data collection, process of data collection and limitations of the study. The third chapter includes the analysis and interpretation of the data obtained from the field. The fourth chapter has the findings and recommendations of the study in which some pedagogical implications have been recommended to make the findings of this study better as well as to strengthen further studies. References and appendices follow this chapter.