Transfer of Teacher Training in Teaching Listening Skills

Abstract

This research entitled "Transfer of Teacher Training in Teaching Listening Skills" is an attempt to identify the teaching learning activities of trained teachers while teaching listening skills in term of warming up, presentation and practice,method and techniques and evaluation system, to examine the transfer of training to classroom delivery by the trained teachers. In order to carry out this study, the researcher followed survey design.Twenty teachers of primary and lower secondary schools were selected through purposive non random sampling procedure. The researcher used observation checklist as the tool to collect the data. After observing the forty classes of the selected teachers, the researcher analyzed and interpreted the data. From the study, it was found that a majority of teachers used the knowledge of the training in teaching listening skills. They used different listening activities to facilitate listening skills of the students. However, a very few number of classes had the provision of using three stages of teaching listening skills because of their regular exploration of traditional methods and lack of consciousness towards strategies acquired from training. This thesis consists of five chapters. Thefirst 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. The second 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 results and discussion. It also includes analysis of data, interpretation of results and summary of the findings. Fifth chapter deals with summary,conclusions and implications followed by references and appendices. The implication is subsumed under policy level, practice level and further research respectively.