Educational Attainment of Parents and Its Impact Upon Instructed Second Language Acquisition (SLA)

Abstract

The present research entitled Educational Attainment of Parents and its Impact Upon Instructed SLA was an attempt to find out educational attainment level of parents in relation to English language learning and its impact upon learning behavior of their children inside their classroom.Similarly,the research further focused on the teaching strategies applied in side the classroom of primary level learners﴾both literate and illiterate parent’s children﴿and the learner’s capacity to learn the English language. It further aimed to investigate educational attainment level of parents and its role in learner’s acquisition techniques. The researcher tried to find out the teacher’s view towards the both groups while teaching English. Both the primary and secondary sources of data have been used in the study. Descriptive and analytical study design along with both qualitative and quantitative data have been used in this study. A sample of five primary level private schools from Kathmandu district have been taken purposively by selecting ten students,four parents and two teachers from each school to meet the objectives of the study. The study found out that educational attainment level of parents played significant role in developing English language acquisition techniques to the learners. The study also reflected that teacher’s teaching strategies determine learner’s capacity to learn English inside the classroom.Finally, majority of the teachers i.e. 80% of them said that it is difficult to teach the children of the parents who have basic educational status.parents but it is easy to teach the children of the parents who were above SLC.It shows that parents educational status has direct relationship to their children’s learning behavior inside the classroom. It was found out that parent’s educational status also affects the personality factor of the learners. Among fifteen students whose parents were basic and SLC, thirteen were depending upon their teachers support while learning English inside the classroom instead of practicing by themselves. They were passive inside the classroom. The study has been divided into five chapters viz. introduction, review of related literature, methods and procedures of the study, results and discussion of the study and summary, conclusion and implications of the study. The first chapter focused on the background information of the research, different theoretical concepts which support the study. In the second chapter, the researcher has mentioned the review of theoretical literature, review of the empirical literature related to this research; implication and theoretical framework are the notable points of this chapter.The third chapter deals with methods and procedures of the study under which design of the study,population and sample, sampling procedure, data collection tools, data collection procedures, analysis and interpretation procedure is mentioned.The forth chapter involves the results and discussion of the study.Finally, the fifth chapter includes the whole summary,conclusion and implications of the study.Implications such as policy level, practice level and further research level are suggested.