Techniques used by Primary Level English Teachers to Provide Feedback

Abstract

The present study Techniques Used by Primary Level English Teachers to Provide Feedback was carried out to find out feedback techniques used by Primary Level English teachers. It was carried out among forty teachers from private schools of Kathmandu district. Teachers were selected through non-random purposive sampling procedure. Questionnaire and observation checklist were the main tools used for data collection. It was found out that conformation check technique,repetition, reformulation, use of paralinguistic signs and immediate correction were the maximally used feedback techniques while coding system in writing, pointing out errors without any correction in writing were the leastused feedback techniques.Similarly,80% teachers were found using feedback regularly in classes. This thesis is divided into five chapters. The first chapter, Introduction includes the background, statement of the problem, objectives, research questions, significance of the study, delimitations of the study and operational definitions of the key terms.In the second chapter, the store house of the knowledge has been shown byreviewing theoretical literature and empirical literature on the basis of which conceptual framework was developed. The third chapter deals with the methodology employed to conduct the study. It gives information about the design of the study,population and sample, sampling procedure, data collection tools, data collection procedure and data analysis and interpretation procedure.The collected data arepresented, analyzed and interpreted in the fourth chapter. The fifth chapter summarizes and concludes the whole study in the first two sections. Some implications of the study are presented in the last section. The chapter is followed by references and appendixes to make the study reliable, valid and authentic.