Classroom Strategies Used for Improving Communicative Skills

Abstract

This research entitled"Classroom Strategies Used for Improving Communicative Skills" is an attempt to identify the strategies used by the secondary level English teachers to improve the communicative skills of students. In order to carry out this study, the researcher followed survey design. Two teachers of secondary level school were selected through purposive non random sampling procedure. The researcher used observation checklist as the tool to collect the data. After the researcher observing the 40 classes of the selected teachers the researcher analyzed and interpreted the data. The data were presented in different tables and interpreted with reasonable language. From the study, it was found that the roles of the teachers and learners in the communicative classroom were good to improve communicative skills.A majority of the classes teachers had a good sense of counseling. They used role playand group discussion as the major strategies to facilitate communicative ability of thestudents. However, a very few number of classes had the provision of language games to facilitate the improvement of communicative skills. Similarly, a minority of teachers were aware in making learners risk-takers in the classroom. This thesis consists of five chapters. The first chapter deals with the introduction of the topic in which background, statement of the problem, objectives of the study,research questions, significance of the study, delimitations of the study, and operational definitions of the key terms are included. Thesecond chapter covers the review of related theoretical literature, review of related empirical literature,implications of the review for the study and conceptual framework. The third chapter deals with the methods and procedures of the study which includes research design population, sample and sampling strategies, sampling procedure, data collection tools, data collection procedure and data analysis and interpretation procedure. Likewise, the fourth chapter presents the analysis and interpretation of results. It also includes analysis of data, interpretation of results and summary of thefindings. Fifth chapterdeals with conclusions and recommendations followed byreferences and appendices. The recommendation is subsumed under policy related,practice related and further research related respectively.