Teachers’ views on adopting Post Method Pedagogy

Abstract

The study entitled ‘Teachers’ views on adopting Post Method Pedagogy’mainly focused on the English language teachers’ views on adopting Post Method Pedagogy in the context of Nepal. This study also explored the current practises of English language teachers. In an effort to discover the actual information, 40 English language teachers (20 from private schools and 20 from government aided schools) who have been teaching English in the Kathmandu valley were selected purposively and were asked to complete the questionnaire. Besides this, questionnaire check-list was also used to collect the data from the respondents.Based on the responses, it was found that almost all the teachers were not satisfied with their current practice of teaching and showed their dissatisfaction in adopting a particular established method for example GT Method, Direct Method, Communicative Method, etc. The study discovered that most of the teachers were in favour of adopting Post Method Pedagogy though they had some difficulties in its implication. This thesis comprises five chapters. The first chapter deals with the introduction of the topic. It includes general background of the study, statement of the problem, rationale of the study, objectives of the study,research questions, significance of the study, delimitations of the study and definitions of the key terms.The second chapter is related to review of related literature and conceptual framework. It includes review of related theoretical literature, empirical literature,implications of the review for thestudy, and conceptual framework.The third chapter is concerned with methods and procedures of the study which consists of design of the study,population and sample of the study,sampling procedure,data collection tools,data collection procedure and data analysis and interpretation procedure.The fourth chapter includes the result and discussion of the data.Finally, the fifth chapter covers summary, conclusions and implications of the study. In this chapter some of the pedagogical implications have been suggestedon the basis of the findings of the study.