Attitudes of Private School Teachers towards Teaching English

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to find out the attitudes of private school teachers towards teaching English at the Primary Level. Ten private schools of Lamjung district were randomly selected for the study. For this study,I selected forty informants(teachers) from the selected schools using stratified random sampling procedure. I used a set of questionnaire consisting of closed-ended and open-ended questions in order to collect the required information from the respondents to meet the objectives of the study.Most of the closed-ended questions were to be answered on a five point likert scale ranging from‘Strongly Agree’,‘Agree’,‘Uncertain’, ‘Disagree’ and ‘Strongly Disagree’;while open ended questions required teachers’ brief reasons to support their answer of closed-ended questions.I then carried out a field study for the collection of data.The data collected from the informants were analyzed and interpreted to find out the teachers’ attitudes towards teaching English at the Primary Level.The major findings of my study are:The private primary schools teachers have positive attitude towards grade one. They are fully positive towards starting English from grade one so it should be taught at the primary level. Similarly teachers want the English language as a medium of instruction in teaching English at primary level. This thesis consists of fivechapters. The first chapter introduces the background of the study,statement of the problem, objectives of the study,delimitation of the study and operational definition of the key terms.The second chapter deals with the review of theoretical and empirical literature,implication of related literature and conceptual framework. Chapter three presents the design and method of the study, population, sample and sampling strategy, data collection and techniques, data collection procedures, and data analysis and interpretation procedure are in the third chapter.Analysis of data and interpretation of results are in forth chapter.While analyzing the data, the total number of teachers for each response has been counted and numbers have been changed into percentage. Open-ended questions have been analyzed descriptively and analytically. The last chapter deals with the conclusions and recommendations of the study including some pedagogical implications.References and appendices are included at the end of the study.