Strategies Used By English Teachers Inteaching Short Stories

Abstract

This thesis entitled "Strategies Used by the English Teachers in Teaching ShortStories" was carried out to find out the strategies used in teaching short storiesby English teachers at lower secondary level. To fulfillthe set objectives of thestudy, case study was conducted. I had analyzed the data on the basis ofactivities recorded/noted from the class observation. For this study I usedjudgmental non-random sampling procedure to select four lower secondarylevel English teachers from different schools of Sarlahi district. I observed 40classes (10 classes of each teacher) of those purposively selected lowersecondary level (class eight). I maintained diary writing as well as ticked on theobservation checklist. After analyzing the data it was found that most of theteachers used the student centered teaching methods i.e. interaction method,discussion method, problem solving method and question answer methods. This thesis consists of five chapters: The first chapteris introductory in nature.It introduces the topic in general. It also includes, statement of the problem,rationale of the study, objectives of the study, research questions, significanceof the study, delimitations of the study and operational definition of the keyterms. The second chapter deals with the review of related literature,implications of review of the study and theoretical and conceptual framework.Similarly, the third chapter deals with the methods and procedures of the study,design of thestudy, population and sample, sampling procedures, datacollection tools, data collection procedures and data analysis and interpretationprocedures. After that, the fourth chapter deals with results anddiscussions/interpretation and the last chapter deals with summary,conclusions, implications in policy level, practice level and further researchfollowed by references and appendices.