Teachers' Beliefs in the use of Communicative Language Teaching to Enhance Speaking

Abstract

This study entitled "Teachers' Beliefs in the use of Communicative Language Teaching to Enhance Speaking" was an attempt to find out the Teachers' Beliefs in the use of Communicative Techniques in Teaching Speaking of the learners. To meet the objectives of this study forty teachers who were teaching at secondary and lower secondary level in different schools of Rautahat district were selected as sample. In this research non-random purposive sampling procedure was used to select the sample of study. A questionnaire was used as a tool for data collection. The collected data were interpreted and analyzed both descriptively and statistically. From this study it was found out that most of the teachers preferred the use of communicative techniques to enhance speaking ability of the students. All the teachers agreed that the goal of communicative techniques is to enhance communicative competence. Similarly, the study showed that students’ mistakes should not be corrected immediately they belief that role of teacher is facilitator, students’ talk time should be given more priority to enhance speaking ability, text book is not enough martial to develop speaking ability, communicative techniques are better than other techniques in context of Nepal. They believed that group work is the most useful technique in developing speaking ability and they feel confident enough to practice CLT in class room. The whole study consists of five chapters. In the first chapter, there is introduction, background, statement of the problem, objectives of the study, research questions, and significance of the study and operational definitions of the key terms. Chapter two presents the review of related literature, implications of the review for study and conceptual framework. In the same way chapter three is about methods and procedures of the study within design of the study, population and sampling strategies, study area/field data collection tools, data collection procedures and data analysis and interpretation. In fourth chapter I presented analysis and interpretation are included. The fourth chapter presents the analysis and interpretation of results and summary of the finding and the fifth chapter comprises the conclusion and recommendation of the study.