Strategies Used inTeaching Communicative Functions

Abstract

The study entitled Strategies Used inTeaching Communicative Functions has been carried out to find out strategies used by the teacher in teaching communicative functions at the secondary level. By the use of non random sampling procedures, the researcher selected fifteen secondary schools of Syangja district and fifteen teachers from each of the selected schools. The researcher collected data through questionnaire andclassroom observation. He kept the record of the communicative strategies used by the teachers while teaching communicative functions during his period of observation. The collected data were analyzed and interpreted qualitatively. He used simple statistical tools like frequency and percentage to present quantitative data as well. From the analysis and interpretation of the data, the result of this study showed that while teaching communicative functions in secondary school, teachers were found to use role play,groupwork, pair work, discussion, demonstration, explanation, picture description, oral interview as the major strategies for teaching communicative functions. However, they were found to have faced several problems such as classroom management, materials,student's participation. This thesis is divided into five chapters. The first chapter deals with the introduction of the study. It introduces communicative functions and techniques used in teaching communicative functions. Similarly, it includes research questions, significance of the study,delimitations and operational definitions of key terms. Chapter two is related with review of both theoretical and empirical literature, implications of the review for the study and conceptual framework. Chapter three deals with methods and procedures of the study i.e. how the research was carried out. It includes design of the study, population,sample and sampling strategies, study areas/filed, sampling procedures, data collection tools, data analysis and interpretation procedures.Similarly, chapter four is related to the analysis and interpretation of results which were analyzed separating them into three teaching strategies used in teaching communicative functions and classroom strategies used by the teacher for teaching. The data have been interpreted by presenting thestrategies used in teaching communicative functions in the form of table. Final chapter includes the conclusion and recommendations. Recommendations is also presented into three levels viz.policy related level, practice related level and further research related level. The study ends with the references and appendices used in the study.