Strategies Used in Teaching Speaking

Abstract

This study entitled "Strategies Used in Teaching Speaking " is an attempt to find out the extent to which the secondary ELT teachers use different teaching speaking strategies as suggested by Kayi (2006) and to compare the use of these strategies in community and private schools. In order to achieve these objectives, observation checklist was used as data collection tool. Ten secondary level English teachers of Kathmandu district were selected through purposive non random sampling procedure. Among them, five secondary schools were public and five were private. One teacher from each school was selected and their classes were observed four times in each school purposively.The finding of the study showed that out of 13 strategies of Kayi (2006), only nine of them were found being used in the schools and majority (i.e. 60%) of the teachers were found not using these strategies well. They were found conducting these strategies on an average rank. This thesis consists of five chapters. The first chapter deals with general background, statement of the problem, rationale for the study, objectives of the study, research questions, significance of the study and operational definitions of key terms. Similarly,chapter two deals with review of related theoretical literature and empirical literature, implication of review for the study and conceptual framework. Chapter three deals with design of the study, population and sample sampling procedure, data collection tools, data collection procedure and data analysis and interpretation procedure. Similarly, chapter four consists of results and discussion. Chapter five deals with summary, conclusion and implications of the study.