Teachers’ Views on Action Research for Professional Development

Abstract

The present study entitled, "Teachers’ Views on Action Research for Teachers’ Professional Development" aimed to find out the views of teachers on action research for their professional development. To carry out this research study,both primary and secondary sources of data were used.The questionnaire including both closed ended and open ended questions were administered to collect the data to this study.The data were collected from the teachers teaching at the secondary and higher secondary schools of Chitwan District.Purposive sampling procedure was used to select the schools and the teachers.The schools were 30 in numbers and 40 teachers from the selected schools were the sample of this study. The collected data were analyzed by using tabulation, figure and their description. The findings of this study were that majority of the teachers who were from humanities background did not have enough knowledge about action research in the first year of their teaching career and majority of the informants practiced action research in their English language teaching classroom.Similarly,most of the teachers were found practicing action research in teaching learning of aspects and grammar. This thesis consists of four chapters. The first chapter is an introductory chapter. It includes general background, review of related literature, objectives of the study, significance of the study.Especially,it includes the area around profession and professionalism in English language teaching. Chapter two,methodology incorporates sources of data, sampling procedures, tools for data collection, procedures for data collection and the limitations of the study.Similarly, the third chapter encompasses analysis and interpretation of the data quantitatively and descriptively. The concluding chapter is the chapter fourth.This chapter includes the conclusions of the chapter three. That is why findings and recommendations for research are presented in chapter four. The references and appendices are included in the concluding part of the thesis.