Teachers’ Perception and Practice on Immediate Feedback In Speaking

Abstract

This present study entitled “Teachers’ Perception and Practices on Immediate Feedback in Speaking” aimed to find out the teachers’ perception and practices on immediate feedback in enhancing students’ speaking proficiency. Qualitative descriptive design was used in this study. The study was carried out among five secondary level English teachers of Baglung district. The sample of this study was selected through the use of purposive sampling strategy. The data were collected through semi-structured interview and classroom observation. From the study it has been found that the teachers take feedback positively and focus on immediate feedback. They mostly used immediate oral feedback in speaking lessons. Similarly, they provided on spot corrective feedback, especially on the mistakes made by students in pronunciation. . In the same way, they equally made use of the positive feedback on students’ good work with verbal assurance like; “good”, “excellent”, “good job”, “very good” and many more in the classroom. Moreover, they mostly used repetition and clarification request as the techniques to provide immediate feedback in speaking This study consists of five chapters. The first chapter is introductory in nature. It includes background of the study, statement of the problem, objectives of the study, research questions, significance of the study, delimitations of the study and operational definition of the key terms. The second chapter deals with the review of related literature, implications of review of the study and conceptual framework. Similarly, the third chapter incorporates the methods and procedures of the study, design of the study, population and sample, sampling procedures, data collection tools, data collection procedures and data analysis and interpretation procedures. Chapter four discusses the results and discussions/interpretation, where the last chapter comprises findings, conclusion and recommendations of the study in brief. References and appendices are included at the last part of this thesis.