Pre-Reading Activities in Teaching Short Stories at Higher Secondary Level

Abstract

This study entitled "Pre-reading Activates in Teaching Short Stories at Higher Secondary Level" attempts to find out the pre-reading activities used by the teachers in teaching short stories at higher secondary level in Kathmandu district.In order to achieve these objectives, two sets of questionnaire were distributed to the teachers and students and ten classes of teachers were observed by using class observation form. Ten higher secondary schools of Kathmandu district were selected non-randomly for the collection of data. Two teachers and four students were selected from each school non-randomly. After preparing the tools, there searcher visited the sampled higher secondary schools. The data were collected through questionnaire and class observation. Very difficult situation was found in pre-reading activities in teaching short stories. No fixed activities were found in teaching stories in class eleven. The researcher found guessing the topic and providing the reason for reading and good pre-reading activities. The activities were different from one teacher to another. It has been found that most of the teachers explained the title of the story. The condition of pre-reading activities was satisfactory. The present study consists of four chapters. Chapter one deals with general background, review of related literature, objectives and significance of the study.The second chapter deals with the methodology used in the study. It consists of sources of data, population of the study, sampling procedure, tools for data collection and limitation of the study. Chapter three deals with the analysis and interpretation of the data to find out the pre-reading activities used by the teachers in teaching short stories at higher secondary level. The collected data were analyzed and interpreted by using simple statical tools of percentage and figure.The fourth chapter presents the findings derived from the analysis and interpretation of the data. It also suggests some recommendations on the basis of the findings. The final section of the study includes the references and appendices.